The metal shield that covers the PCB helps ensure performance chipset USB3 Etron EJ168A and limit interference. The rather neat circuit indicates the high calling of product range with the black color of the slot and screen.
For newer PCs only having alims Sata must buy a 15cm adapter cable with Molex female and male Sata.
Driver installation (Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller and USB 3.0 Extensible Etron Root Hub) is easy because the mini-cd contains only a single executable. Unfortunately the version 103 deprecated driver inhibits output eve of some Windows Seven 64 bits (reboot or blue screen of death). so you have to download a newer version V112 to V115 on the net to get everything in order. So one star less but do not worry, all is well after!
The USB3 Etron chipset performance is the most excellent time. Of particular note is a good compatibility with HDD enclosures or external hard drives that are poorly or not at all identified with other chipsets.
For the keys in the USB3 read transfer rate is doubled or tripled compared to a USB2 port, writing is less well with +5 to + 30%.
Example surprises read / write for 2 equivalent price of products under "H2testw"
- Key EMTEC 16GB USB3: 4.28MB / s - 49.1MB / s (write - reading) poor writing key.
- Key 16GB USB3 MEMUP: 21.6MB / s - 82.3MB / s (write - read) a satisfactory key.
With the same test software box with a USB3 Advance 2.5 HDD Sata II 5400rpm Toshiba achieves or exceed the 100MB / s.
For external hard drives a USB3 cable quality is not required to lock the flow USB2 or cause endless connections-disconnections ...
We also take care to remove any mouse HF wireless dongle and place it on a remote USB sockets of the card or away from a USB3 cable in use. This will avoid erratic behavior of the mouse caused by microwave radiation. A return to the good old wired mouse will prevent dongles / mouse HF devices USB3 cable and disrupt each other creating unexpected trouble ...
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