Review on 💻 StarTech.com 2-Port USB 3.1 Gen 1 and eSATA PCIe Card - High-Speed PCI Express Controller Card - 1x USB-A and 1x eSATA (PEXUSB311A1E) by Joshua Jemison

I bought this item to protect my PC in the future and to expand my USB ports. I had a 10GB USB TYPE C Gen 2 Dock to connect to this device. Installing this card was easy and I installed the ASMedia drivers from the StarTech website according to the instructions. The card shows up in device manager and everything seems fine. However, when I tested CrystalDisk, the results weren't what I expected. I couldn't get more than 300MB read/write from a docked 512GB SSD. I have a trick up my sleeve to figure out what's wrong. I have another computer that has a Windows Mixed Reality headset installed. There is a test you can download from Microsoft that will test everything on your PC needed to run WMR, including USB ports. I did a test and the test actually showed that the problem was with the ASMedia drivers and the solution was to replace them with the Microsoft drivers. I did this and ran a CrystalDisk scan which almost doubled to 550MB. I ran the WMR test again and it showed good results. If you want to know how, run the WMR test and follow the instructions on what to do when you see USB port errors. All I can say is that after that everything worked as it should and I haven't had any problems since.