How Many USBs Can You Plug In At Once?

Get 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers (20% Off $99USD/year!) at or learn more at Save 10% and Free Shipping at Ridge by using offer code LINUS at How many USB devices can be plugged into a PC at one time? It’s a reasonable question, but the answer is more complicated than you might expect. We took 127 USB devices and plugged them in one by one until something broke. Then we took those same devices and reconfigured a few things to see if we can break it a different way. Just how broken do things get? Which limits get hit? How can you calculate YOUR maximum USB amount? Discuss on the forum: Buy a SABRENT 16 Port Powered USB 3.0 Hub: Buy a UGREEN USB Card Reader Hub: Buy a StarTech 7 Port PCI Express USB 3.0 Card: Buy a StarTech 4 Port PCI Express USB 3.0 Card: Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: ► EQUIPMENT WE USE TO FILM LTT: ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: FOLLOW US ---------------------------------------------------   Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: TikTok: @linustech Twitch: MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: iTunes Download Link: Artist Link: Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: Listen on Spotify: Artist Link: Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0   Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:06 Limits to push it to 2:21 THE HUB 5:31 Can we break THE HUB? 7:51 Big Hub Energy 9:18 Going Deep (into Bus Topology and DFPs) 10:13 AMD ruins our good time 16:00 Endpoints! 17:40 The USBinator! 19:23 4 ports is better than 7 20:36 USBinator powers on! 23:13 this the limit? 24:00 Conclusion