Review on 💻 Inateck PCIe to USB 3.2 Gen 2 Card: Enhance Speed with 20 Gbps Bandwidth, 5 Ports - 3 Type-A, 2 Type-C, RedComets U21 by Lori Taylor

If your motherboard doesn't have a x16 PCIE 4.0 card slot, you can't take full advantage of the performance of this PCIE expansion card. Open your motherboard manual and do some research to see if your motherboard can use the full potential of this card. Otherwise buy a much cheaper USB 3.0 PCIE expansion card; Ideally one that doesn't consume SATA power unnecessarily. And no, you don't need to use SATA power for this PCIE card to work properly. Call if there are other PCIE slots that can fully utilize USB 3.2 Gen 2. The second thing I wanted to point out is that this is specifically a USB 3.2 Gen 2 (not USB 3.2 Gen 2x2. yes there is a difference) PCIE card. If you do your research and find out that your motherboard can handle USB ports at that speed, you've achieved something. Basically, your motherboard should support data transfer rates between 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps. Few modern motherboards support this, but depending on when you're reading this, it's entirely possible that USB 4.0 will quickly become the standard anyway. In that case, maybe a USB 4.0 PCIE card will appear sometime in the hypothetical future? The card itself is quite difficult to set up. But thankfully once you screw everything up, it works. The only thing I don't like about modern motherboards is that some of the elements click very loudly and snap into the motherboard, while you just pop that card into a compatible PCIE slot and hope it's fully seated until you get it don't turn it on. I'm interested in durability. One of the reasons I bought this card is because my motherboard has a schematic USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C slot that randomly turns off, so hopefully it won't happen again with this card. In case you're wondering, I'm currently using this on my X570 motherboard specifically for high data transfer rates - external NVMEs, SSDs, flash drives, and other USB-C devices. Thanks for reading.-SC