It would be handy to plug a USB2 device into one of the USB3 ports on a Pi4. The machine has a keyboard, mouse and FTDI TTL232R usb- serial adapter in addition to the USB3 boot hard disk.
Will using one USB3 port for, say, the high-speed FTDI adapter slow down traffic to the USB3 hard drive? I gather that at least some usb devices slow down all ports when one port has a slow device, but that notion is old and I'm not sure it applies to the Pi4.
The machine is running that way now with no obvious problems, but hasn't been seriously exercised yet..
Thanks for reading!
bob prohaska