Review on 🔌 Inateck Superspeed 7 Port PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion Card - 5 Front USB 3.0 Ports and 2 Rear USB 3.0 Ports, Express Card Desktop with 15 Pin SATA Power Connector, Includes Two Power Cables (KT5002) by Yung Cypher

This is a great upgrade for my old X58 based workstation. I hate buying a new computer just for updated interfaces. This old thing is still a 6 core Xeon that works very well. Comes with power cord, which is very convenient. The connectors weren't enough in my case, so the SATA power cutter was a handy add-on. Plugging in power is a huge bonus to plugging in devices. I have a USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive that would misbehave if not plugged into the correct connector on the motherboard, and even then it was unstable because it was drawing too much power. It works reliably on this card, and using a 2.0 device with a 2.0 hasn't slowed anything that I've seen. At the same time, I was able to copy 2 external 4TB Seagate drives to 1240GB V300 SSDs at 130MB/s1 and write at 188MB. /S in the Inateck case, total throughput 448 MB/s. Theoretically, USB 3 has a maximum speed of 640 MB/s when you factor in the overhead and the PCI-E x1 2.0 limit of 500 MB/s. I am very happy. A few performance notes. installed in at least one PCI-E 2.0 slot, if you have one in a 1.0 slot you are limited to 250 MB/s. Download the drivers from the Internet or use the CD. The thing wasn't running at the right speed and after installing the drivers there was a huge surge.