operating systems A quite non-scientific and often happened myth, maybe topic for an LTT episode?

[acidrain_3]

I heard that data transferring is much secured and lossless to use port in the back of the motherboard, in stead of the front I/O.

 

Especially when it comes to OS installing. The system stability is inferior if using the front ports?

 

Sounds crazy, right, but friends and people I met in the chatting group both shown the same issue.

 

Symptoms would be software crashes, blue screen, unpredictable shutdown. But mostly the middle one.

 

Maybe sound stupid and bullcrap that I've never encounter that, because I've never use fronts. Also maybe the LTSC version I use?

 

I literally just typed this question after my friend an I play Monster Hunter, and he crashes with the sudden death of blue.

[WoodenMarker]

Yes, it's probably less reliable. Adding more parts like a usb cable and the extra length can allow for more interference. The front i/o build quality is also often not as good. 

[TempestCatto]

It'd be interesting to see an informative style video on this (would require one Anthony). Post your suggestion for a video here:

 

[TrainFan475]

I would like to see this.

[acidrain_3]

5 hours ago, TrainFan2019 said:

I would like to see this.

A boring, result over process kind of video. But I trust Linus can make it entertaining though, literally a media group, where actors(employees) are trained.

[Kilrah]

6 hours ago, acidrain_3 said:

I heard that data transferring is much secured and lossless to use port in the back of the motherboard, in stead of the front I/O.

 

Especially when it comes to OS installing. The system stability is inferior if using the front ports?

No, unless your front IO has trash cabling. 

I use my front ports all the time. 

[porina]

It would have to be looked up, but this raises the question if USB data transfers include at the least error checking. For the symptoms described there would have to be silent data corruption happening on the transfers. It can't be corruption on the storage itself as that would impact regardless if it was plugged in front or rear ports.

 

An easy test might be to simply copy a large file to/from a USB stick a few times and verify its checksum.

[Kilrah]

There is error detection of course, you won't get data corruption but if the signal is bad you'll just have transfers hanging or the drive disconnecting.

 

I've had that happen, since using a front port increases the cable length and said cable goes through places with high interference it has to have a good quality cabling. Some unfortunately don't.