Power USB devices or charge them without needing an AC adapter.Adds four SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports each with up to 5Gb/s (600MB/s) data rate – up to 10x faster than USB 2.0.On a PC equipped with an ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX chipset) motherboard using an AMD 8350 CPU running Windows 8, the interface expansion card delivers over 317MB/s Read and over 296MB/s Write data transfers with a VisionTek mSATA 240GB SSD installed in a VisionTek mSATA mini enclosure.īoth systems performance tested with Intech Software’s QuickBench disk performance utility. On a 2009 Mac Pro running OS X 10.9, the interface expansion card delivers over 356MB/s Read and over 338MB/s Write data transfers via a VisionTek mSATA 480GB SSD installed in a VisionTek mSATA mini enclosure. With backward compatibility to USB 2.0/1.0 standards, you can connect all the devices you presently own and not have to buy new ones. Use with Macs is Plug and Play driverless.

Just install the interface expansion card into an available PCIe slot (2.0 preferred) and then run the included driver CD if using a Windows based machine. It’s never been easier to expand the capabilities of your PC or Mac. When used with an external drive, each port can deliver up to 5Gb/s (600MB/s) data rates for transferring and/or backing up music, photos, and HD movies.

Each port is also hot swappable, so you can attach and disconnect external drives as desired. With each port providing 900mA of bus power, you can use many of your desktop devices with needing a power adapter.

These ports can be used to connect your computer to external hard drives, CD/DVD drives, MP3 players, printers, scanners, webcams, game controllers, digital cameras, and other devices. The VisionTek 4 Port PCIe USB 3.0 Interface Expansion Card lets you easily add four SuperSpeed USB 3.0/2.0 ports to your PC or Mac® through an available PCI Express slot.

Plug usb 3 card into pci2 x4 or x16