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larry moe 'n curly says...

Use a powered hub.

How does that help when a powered hub costs as much as a PCI USB card
and has ports that are just as vulnerable to zapping as the card's?

Because a powered hub can support a higher load per port than a
PCI/Onboard USB card.

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