Does this card actually achieve the 5GB/s? I have yet to see one that does without an external power source.
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I purchased this card just to test my new Kingston USB3 thumb drives on a Dell D830 Express (smaller 34mm PCMCIA card slot, and required an adapter to hold it in correctly). Loaded under Win7 and Win8. It functions, once you get the drivers loaded.. but certainly not at 5gb/s. I get just slightly better than USB2 file copies. For my setup using a USB2 thumb drive, I can get 27-30mb/s, and with a USB3 thumb drive I might get 35/40 mb/s. To get 5GB/s you would need (I believe)a USB3 Super Speed flash drive and an express card bus faster than the one in this Dell D830. The one in my Dell D830 I believe... is 16 bit and PCMCIA version 1.0. PCMCIA and express does come in 32 bit flavored slots and up to version 2.0. These might do USB3 super speed, but check the PCMCIA wiki. PCMCIA is dead pretty much after about 2009, i.e. no newer laptops are using it. Which is a shame... IMHO.. and YMMV Drivers for this card and other USB3 Express cards are well.. difficult to be certain of and can be OS dependent. If you know the chip vendor, i.e. like Renesas, then you will typically be better off loading any USB3 card. In my experience anyway. Again.. YMMV
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I hadn't heard that, but it would explain it. Anyone have any suggestions on what kind of card works to expand the memory?
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USB and USB 2.0 devices will run when connected to this card at their normal speeds. There is not a speed boost with older generation devices.
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This thing is very fast never had a read issue. I think it would be more dependent on the speed class of the SD card. The USB speed on this thing blows my mind!
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Yes the Kingston's cards works fine. I got 2 cards one 512MB and one 1GB and both works fine. But if you want to take video or continuos shooting I recomend you the 1GB 80x Transcend or the 2GB 120x Transcend (the best price and speed) I use it for video and give me 8min (1GB aprox) videos without any problem.
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The card I had worked perfectly with my Macbook air (late 2011), and was way faster, 1GB would take about 30 to 40 seconds to copy. I sent mine for replacement after 6 months of usage because it did not work on my new MBP (late 2013). I am supposed to get the new one shortly.
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Can't answer that since it would most definitely depend on what other components you have. This card does not require a lot of power by design, but the total power load would depend on the other components in your system - not just this card.
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It does not require any addition power. It works with external Esata drives that don't require power (pocket drives) If you have a larger external 3.5 inch drive it should have its own power supply. I have a 1tb 2.5 inch Esata and it works just like a USB drive plug and go. Also I have just upgraded the system I use the card from Win XP to Win 7 and it was flawless. everything was totally automatic. Hope this helps, PS I am currently considering purchasing another one for a different system. I have been totally happy with the card The price performance ratio on this card is great.
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Yeah... ish. I have it in my router right now and it works great in the 2.4ghz band. Im working on getting the 5ghz band up and running but I seem to be running into country code problems or it might be possible that this card doesn't support AP mode in 5Ghz mode but Im hoping for the former :) kernel 3.13. EDIT. Talked to a intel kernel dev. 5ghz is disabled for regulatory reasons.
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No, or it would be considerably more expensive. 5400RPM / 8MB cache per mfg's Web site. I found it fast enough to please me when backing up data and plugged into a modern USB 3.0 port, but quite a bit slower attached to an older computer that only had USB 2.0 ports.
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This card does not require a power cable. But just FYI...don't buy thus card.
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I am using 400W power supply with this card and it works just fine. This card has pretty low power requirement especially since it has no cooling fans. This card is designed to be fully fanless by using bigger heat sinks. I mainly used it for the good performance, smaller profile and fanless design. Please let me know if you have further questions.
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My S2IS purchased at Amazon.com came with a Kingston 1GB card, so slow it's not speed-rated, I'm guessing 5X or so. But it still records OK, at 30 fps 640x480 with 16-bit uncompressed wav STEREO, just like the S3. It's just a pain to offload the files to computers. 1GB is enough for 9 minutes, so I suppose any 10x, 20x, rated cards should work.
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I would assume the need for power; all third-party USB-3 cards that I've seen seem to. As for sleep, I would ** think ** that if they're compliant with the PCI-e spec, it shouldn't be an issue....??
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What little power this card needs it draws directly from the slot. You don't even need to run a line to the power box. You shouldn't have a problem.
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I am not completely sure I know what you are asking--i.e., you only have 2 usb ports and you need extra, or you have multiple webcams (you say 2), and you have them attached to a controller function or a USB splitter and coming into a single USB port which cannot handle the workload. Nevertheless, this will not use the existing bandwidth since it will go on the rear buss bandwidth set up for additional cards. Also, just because the card is USB3, it does not mean you webcams will run at that speed unless they were designed for USB3. Most consumer webcams I have seen run at USB2 speed which is usually fast enough to give you good video.
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This is a low profile card and does not use a power cable. It uses power from the PCI slot on the motherboard.