this is what i have for 2 of my pods running off of 1 laptop (win 7) no hubs, powered via pcie. i have similar results on my other set up which is 2 pods off of one laptop (win 10) via the included bricks. its just not running atm because for some reason something in win10 dont like cgminer (windows defender or something) so ill be changing it to win7
No need to replace your OS. Open Defender, go into /Settings\ and exclude your cgminer directory and Defender will stop whining about it.
Edit: You might also consider excluding the process (cgminer.exe) in Defender's Setup as well if Defender is shutting down a running miner.