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Review on StarTech.com Quad Port PCI USB 3.0 Adapter Card with SATA/SP4 Power - SuperSpeed USB 3 Controller Card (PCIUSB3S4), Red by Anthony Cano

Revainrating 3 out of 5

and it worked fine after Win10 automatically installed the Renesas drivers (drivers.

Hello, this is a StarTech.com review 4 Port PCI SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (PCI not PCI Express) I expected more This product was ordered for my Intel DH61WW motherboard in the hope that I could add USB3 support and achieve transfer speeds of around 100Mbps with my Seagate USB3.0 external hard drives (I use many external hard drives and transfer large files over 40GB from one hard drive to another), so I expected my work to be much faster than the USB 2.0 transfer speeds (16Mbps to 20Mbps) that I originally received $65.42 for this item and $17 for shipping overseas to my current location ($82.42) total because it was the only USB 3.0 "PCI" controller I could find online, I had to be PCI because the PCI Express slot is already used by the Nvidea Geforce GTX1060 GPU. and I only have one PCI slot that can be used in case I need to add USB 3.0, but I was surprised that after installing the card on a Win10 64bit/Intel DH61WW board I got a problem in Device Manager, which showed that "PCI-PCI Bridge" failed to start, so I've been trying to install updated drivers for 3 days with no success, then I've updated the motherboard BIOS with several versions, one of which almost has my MB destroyed it was intel bios ver 99 that left my mb is almost bricked and i spent 2 more days restoring the flash bios with many methods at the end i was lucky to fix it i have this card then gave up so i took them and installed them on my other work computer which wasn't occupying the pci express slot and it worked fine after win10 automatically installed the renesas drivers (the ones on the drivers provided on the disc are outdated and should not be used). reached 37 MB/s. I then copied the same file from a USB 3.0 HDD to my internal SSD and I got around 83MB/s so my transfer speed between external HDDs went from 20MB/s to 37MB/s which doesn't work for me I was expecting a speed of around 100 MB/s. Bottom line, $82.42 was spent on a card that wasn't working properly due to compatibility issues with the motherboard you're using. So make sure your old motherboard is fully compatible before ordering.

Pros
  • Easy to use
Cons
  • Not everything fits