i have an old hp pavilion laptop e-sata with slot for this card..will putting this in my laptop give me usb 3.0 speed if i add a usb 3.0 hard drive?
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This card will give you two USB 3.0 ports and close to the 3.0 USB speed. But it will not affect the speed of your e-sata port (unless it is being physically being replaced by this card.)My peraonall experience is that this card would not power my External USB HDD.
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I have an old toshiba dual core, with windows 10 (tech preview), and I put it to work there. Its faster than the other usb 2.0 already there. I use it for backup on usb 3 samsung drive. The trick was to download the appropiate driver because the one that came with it did not work.
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Yes but you need to make sure that you acquire the correct driver or the device will not operate properly. The drivers that come with the card do not work.
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The car supports up to Windows 7. As Windows 10 comes out in the fall of 2015 (this year), you're better just upgrading to Windows10 and forgetting using USB3. If the card physically fits into your laptop, then yes you'll get full usb3 speed. IF your laptop port is functioning properly. You'll have to power the card with a wall plug, unless your PC has above-average power to that card slot. Different Express Cards use different widths, so please state the model number of your laptop. If you know that card is the right size for your PC, it should very likely work just fine. IF you use Windows7 and NOT a newer OS. Windows8 and Windows10 use a very different way to make USB3 work. The car supports up to Windows 7. As Windows 10 comes out in the fall of 2015 (this year), you're better just upgrading to Windows10 and forgetting using USB3. If the card physically fits into your laptop, then yes you'll get full usb3 speed. IF your laptop port is functioning properly. You'll have to power the card with a wall plug, unless your PC has above-average power to that card slot. Different Express Cards use different widths, so please state the model number of your laptop. If you know that card is the right size for your PC, it should very likely work just fine. IF you use... » Read More The car supports up to Windows 7. As Windows 10 comes out in the fall of 2015 (this year), you're better just upgrading to Windows10 and forgetting using USB3. If the card physically fits into your laptop, then yes you'll get full usb3 speed. IF your laptop port is functioning properly. You'll have to power the card with a wall plug, unless your PC has above-average power to that card slot. Different Express Cards use different widths, so please state the model number of your laptop. If you know that card is the right size for your PC, it should very likely work just fine. IF you use Windows7 and NOT a newer OS. Windows8 and Windows10 use a very different way to make USB3 work. « Show Less
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I've found that usb3 to usb3 transfers are around 100MB/s up to 170MB/s on 3Gb/s Sata Drives you won't see faster than that till you get faster devices. USB3 to internal sata 3Gb/s drives are about 50MB/s to 90MB/s, Depending on processorand drive speeds. USB3 to e-sata Is around 70 -90MB/s The Drivers that came with mine did work. and it did power my usb 2.5" drives. but not more than 1 at a time. with out using the included power cord.
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Mine did increase the speed but not to true USB3 speed. Worth the investment, gives about 1.5 times speed increase.
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This SSD is SATA3 backward compatible with SATA2, make sure the HP desktop has SATA connectors (slots for cables), and to get the optimum speed make sure it supports SATA3. Thanks
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No, it is a USB 2.0, however I purchased it for the internal Motherboard style USB slot. I needed an additional Internal USB and this card was a cheep option for that. It works great.
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This card is for SATA I/II drives only. It will work with newer drives as well, but won't provide a 6 Gbps speed. For faster drives you might need StarTech.com PEXSAT34RH card, but note different interface types - PCI vs. PCI Express. HTH
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Yes absolutely,but speed wont be same as usb3.0. So hence you will get regular speed with USB 2.0.
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I'd bet just USB 2.0 because the memory card connectors attach to one USB 2.0 Motherboard header. Given that the theoretical maximum bandwith is 60 MB/s, you won't be able to surpass that. The USB 3.0 ports have their specific 19-pin connector.
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Yes, however, nearly all laptop sata ports with a cdrom originally attached are merely sata1. For this reason, I used a spinner for backup storage with mine. Don't get me wrong, if you use an SSD in your new 2nd hard drive bay (the only reason you would care if sata III speeds were accessible) you will still see tremendous gains in speed.
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It comes with a USB 3.0 adapter and cable. Does your old one support USB 3.0? The female connector is different than previous. The adapter aspect is more like I'm not computer literate but the L shape power and sata data input. Hope that helps
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If that is Only 1 USB port then Yes. If that is you have version 1.0 of USB then it may be slow .... check this article and the Crucial website ... -- http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/laptop/3366618/how-upgrade-your-laptop-hard-disk-ssd/
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Yes, as long as its a 3.5 inch drive with a SATA interface. If the drive has more speed than the USB 2 interface could deliver then you'll get more speed in this USB 3.0 enclosure, but if the drive was already at max speed, then you will not see any speed increase.
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Absolutely. I've found that, while it's not as fast as on USB 3.0, obviously, it's still faster on USB 2 ports than many other USB memory sticks!
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No. This adapter is a 34mm Express slot card. You can purchase a 34mm to 54mm express slot adapter but check the specs on you computer make and model first. Also, make sure there are XP drivers available. Nevertheless, I do not recommend any of these USB 3.0 adapters as they all require connection to a USB 2.0 slot to provide extra power required by many USB 3.0 devices. And in my testing, performance is only slightly better than USB 2.0 speeds.
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No. It's not USB 3.0. But that 3.0 port on your laptop will support USB 2.0 devices. They just will not go at USB 3.0 speeds. I cannot imagine that you would ever be able to push 3.0 speeds through an RS-232 serial type connection anyway. USB 2.0 will easily handle the typical 115K and slower serial connection speeds used. It should work fine for you.
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Yes, but why use this old card now for RAID? The SATA supports only 150 MB/s. Most new drives will be SATA III, 6Gb/s or up to 550 GB/s. Just my $0.02 worth.
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SATA III is backwards-compatible with SATA II and SATA I. So this enclosure should work, it will just run at SATA II speed instead of SATA III, which won't make a difference anyway because USB 3.0 is only 1 GBps and SATA II is 3.0 GBps...
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This card reader employs a PCI-express card to provide USB 3.0--you cannot hook it up via a 20 pin header on your motherboard. It does require 2 USB 2.0 headers, and at least 1 SATA header. As for this other connection being compatible, I would have to refer you to your motherboard and device recommendations--Improperly coupling devices to your motherboard could irreparably damage both.
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The main thing is this: when I bought my 3000 dollar laptop from HP, it came with 128gb msata card for drive c. I wanted to ugrade to 256 from bullet. I was surprised like many are that their laptop was given a sataII msata and I got 225 read and 175 write. After using the Bullet case I cloned my c drive and my read speed went up to 550 read and 420 write. Now because of the nature of the beast the USB3 port only gives you sataII like speeds. which is still faster than a spinning hard drive. I use ATTO Disk Benchmark Speed test software. It is a free download, google it.