That sounds like a good advice, but the system and the external drive are both brand new. I bought them together a short while ago. The system was assembled special for me in New York and shipped to me here in Brazil. The Port Expander is plugged into a base hub, of course. Could it be that there are too many thinks going through the ports? I have a printer, trackball, and a digital cam (usually not connected) in the expander besides the hard drive.
My theory was that I would have the slow speed stuff in the expander and everything else in the base hubs. But you know what Bobby Burns said about "the best-laid plans"....
