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Has anybody found any USB3 cards yet that actually give anything like proper USB3 speed on a Mobo that didn't originally have any USB3 cards.
Most of the stupid PCI-e cards have transfer speeds little better than decent USB2 devices. Comparing a decent USB3 external HDD transfer speed on a laptop equipped with USB3 ports the speed was much faster than the same data being transferred using the same HDD connected to the USB3 card on the Mobo.
Both machines running W8 x-64 enterprise on identical Samsung 840 SSD's -- laptop CPU is average Intel i3 (not even an i5). Laptop had 8GB RAM, Desktop 16 GB RAM, Desktop CPU AMD PHENOM QUAD. Data transfer was an 8GB file to the INTERNAL SSD in both cases -- so the speed should have been similar or even faster on the Desktop rather than the laptop.
I have to conclude from this that USB3 expansion cards are just a 100% TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY if you have an older MOBO -- but would be interested if anybody else has better experiences. You used to be able to get full size cards for SERVERS but these just don't seem available any more. The stupid Pci-e one's are all that I can find.
If the Mobo has native USB3 ports then the card might be OK but standard Pci-e at 4X or 16X is just TOO SLOW.
Cheers
jimbo
Has anybody found any USB3 cards yet that actually give anything like proper USB3 speed on a Mobo that didn't originally have any USB3 cards.
Most of the stupid PCI-e cards have transfer speeds little better than decent USB2 devices. Comparing a decent USB3 external HDD transfer speed on a laptop equipped with USB3 ports the speed was much faster than the same data being transferred using the same HDD connected to the USB3 card on the Mobo.
Both machines running W8 x-64 enterprise on identical Samsung 840 SSD's -- laptop CPU is average Intel i3 (not even an i5). Laptop had 8GB RAM, Desktop 16 GB RAM, Desktop CPU AMD PHENOM QUAD. Data transfer was an 8GB file to the INTERNAL SSD in both cases -- so the speed should have been similar or even faster on the Desktop rather than the laptop.
I have to conclude from this that USB3 expansion cards are just a 100% TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY if you have an older MOBO -- but would be interested if anybody else has better experiences. You used to be able to get full size cards for SERVERS but these just don't seem available any more. The stupid Pci-e one's are all that I can find.
If the Mobo has native USB3 ports then the card might be OK but standard Pci-e at 4X or 16X is just TOO SLOW.
Cheers
jimbo
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