Review on 🔌 StarTech.com PCIe USB 3.0 Card (4 Port) - 3 External, 1 Internal - Native OS Support for Windows 8/7 - Standard & Low-Profile (PEXUSB3S42) by Marco Huff

We bought 4 of these cards and nobody in our department likes them. I am surprised by the positive reviews. Our experience says otherwise. We bought them for use on Windows 2012 R2 servers. Allowing Windows to install the driver itself caused servers to crash or intermittently fail when USB devices were plugged in. This included both flash drives and WD external hard drives, none of which drew more power than could be obtained via PCI. After installing the drivers from the website, the cards worked fine. However, none of us liked the turbo mode program it adds to the taskbar. It's just useless. We recently upgraded the servers to Windows Server 2016. The cards don't work at all under 2106, even with new drivers. StarTech has confirmed that Win2012R2 and 2016 work. They have been tested on Dell R420, R620, Lenovo RD430 and Dell Dimension XPS Desktop. It's one of those projects that we take on and tweak from time to time, but there's almost always varying degrees of failure. New3gg rates them 1 star, although to be honest there is only one rating.