USB into Computer VS through a USB Cord

My front USB is kind of hard to get to, so I put a USB Cable from the back to my desk. I was wondering if it makes a difference when transferring a file from a USB thumb drive.
If I hook up the thumb drive directly to the computer and cut and past a file, VS hooking the USB drive to the USB Cord to the computer, do I lose any speed by using the cable?

Thank you,
Chris.

 

I have a powered USB hub with a 24" cable so it's out in the open. It works perfectly except for one mysterious problem. None of my USB backup hard drives, with either one or two USB connector will work. The computer does not recognize them as hard drives.

I must plug them into the computer to function. Never have figured that out, but it's the same on both computers and three different USB ext drives.

 

happydog500, I have a non-powered, no name 4 port USB hub, as far as USB2 transfer speeds goes, I can tell no difference with or without it.

Have had it for several years, it was needed for an old Dell notebook that had only one USB port. Has been used on a few more since then, one currently to connect a backup drive, printer & USB Flash drives with. No loss of speed to report. It's slow with or w/o the port.

Mabye I got lucky, I've read reviews of various brands of similar hubs at Newegg, there's plenty of complaints. Unless there's a bottleneck with the device, such as thin cabling, I can't see where it alone would slow backups or file transfers.

In fact, just a couple of days ago, I ordered a nicer one for my MSI notebook, a non-powered Belkin model, after Newegg's promo code was applied, it was less than $6 with shipping. On the MSI, there's two USB3 ports & only one USB2. Hopefully it'll perform as well as the no name one that I bought on eBay years ago. It's only for accessory use, as I have a USB3 powered docking station for backups.

You shouldn't lose speed with file transfers between your Flash drive & computer by using this. I forgot to mention, that I also have a device similar to what you described, a cord (really a 15 foot cable) with some type of booster on it. Used it for a USB wi-fi adapter & had really good speeds compared to w/o it.

Didn't try a Flash drive on it, as wi-fi card placement was the reason that I bought that one, another no name device found at a good price.

Cat