In industrial settings you often need to collect data from lots of low bandwidth devices. 36 usb-to-serial adapters or something.
I can imagine a lot of other stuff too, like some kind of interactive display in a museum or art exhibition, with lots of IO and little computation. Anything that outgrows a Raspberry Pi.
It could be useful if you need to load documents on a large number of flash drives to hand out for some event. It could also be used with a bunch of SDR dongles for monitoring a lot of different radio signals.
I would assume they have multiple USB controllers, so there would be a lot more bandwidth available than just using USB hubs with a normal PC.
What else would you need that many ports for? Genuinely don’t know
It might be for driving multiple cell phones for click-farms.
In industrial settings you often need to collect data from lots of low bandwidth devices. 36 usb-to-serial adapters or something.
I can imagine a lot of other stuff too, like some kind of interactive display in a museum or art exhibition, with lots of IO and little computation. Anything that outgrows a Raspberry Pi.
There are easier ways do to this in either of those applications. The only thing I can think of is click farms.
It could be useful if you need to load documents on a large number of flash drives to hand out for some event. It could also be used with a bunch of SDR dongles for monitoring a lot of different radio signals.
I would assume they have multiple USB controllers, so there would be a lot more bandwidth available than just using USB hubs with a normal PC.
I cobbled together a bunch of external drives connected via USB 3.0 and made a big 10TB NAS using LVM.
It’s stupid, but true.