Brings faster data transfer even on older motherboards

The card works with linux, I alternately boats next to Windows. Since the motherboard of my PC has only USB 2.0 ports, the backup large amounts of data to an external USB hard drive was quite slow. With USB 3.0, this card brings a significant acceleration. Here figures, measured on Windows 7 64-bit with the Windows "board means" program "winsat" concrete "winsat disk -read -SEQ -seqsize 65536 -Drive drive letter" respectively "-write" instead of "-read" for the write speed , The external drive is Iomega eGo USB 3.0, the I foresight bought some time ago. The speeds compared with connection to a USB 2.0 port on the motherboard:

USB 2.0: Reading: 31.53 MB / s Writing: 25.83 MB / s
USB 3.0: Reading: 94.23 MB / s write: 107.21 MB / s

In other words: Is the external disk connected to this card, reads it three times faster and writes four times faster than a USB 2.0 port. When writing large amounts of data can mean that a backup is completed in 10 minutes instead of for about three quarters of an hour. The second of the four ports I use a card reader. Here is the publication of the figures is less useful because it largely depends on the map, this limits the speed and unfortunately true the maximum that is printed on the card body, in none of my CF / SD card. But on average, the transmission is again twice as fast.