ASUS U3S6 USB 3.0/SATA 3 PCIe card

I’ve taken a gaze at a pair USB 3.0 PCIE card. Finally I’ve obtained one good card today, except this one is fairly a slight dissimilar. It’s the ASUS U3S6 PCIE card that essentially makes use of a usual PCIE slot like opposite to the little X1 style. This card is furthermore a combo card that has together USB 3.0 ports on top of it and SATA3 otherwise 6Gbps SATA connections on it. Consistent with ASUS, using the PCIE X4 slot will exploit your bandwidth otherwise speeds you’ll attain through USB 3.0.

As far as I know that the price of this ASUS U3S6 USB3.0 /SATA 3 card is US$55.00. The major things about this card are as follows:

• Potential transmit Technology
• Accurate SATA 6Gb/s Support
• Exclusive PCIe x4 Bridge Chip designed for Ultra Performance
• Supporting upcoming-generation Serial ATA (SATA) storage boundary. Moreover, find improved scalability, quicker data recovery, twice the bandwidth of present bus systems.
• Accurate USB 3.0 Support
• Exclusive PCIe x4 Bridge Chip meant for Ultra Performance
• Awesome data transfers rate at 4.8Gbps by way of USB 3.0–the most up-to-date connectivity standard.

A number of users who desire to advance to USB 3.0 might be enticed to select this card, which in line with reviews noticed somewhere else also like here, is one of the improved options presently existing. On the other hand, it DOES need the accessibility of a PCIe-x4 slot plus will not place the further ordinary and quite shorter PCIe-x1 slot. It is the x4 slot that permits this expansion card to not require whichever extra power that lots of additional cards need. Utilizing moreover a spare Molex (IDE/ATA power connector) otherwise floppy drive power connector, if either occurs to be obtainable which, during these days where SATA drives are usual, that is not forever right.

If you contain a properly-outfitted motherboard, most present 64-bit computers must be appropriate, and after that this is almost certainly the most excellent choice. If not, there are PCIe-x1 options from Transcend in addition to Buffalo in the middle of others that will present the similar speed gains with suitable drives with elder and 32-bit computers. In favor of laptop users through Express-card slots, there are choices for you as well. Since USB 3.0 permits concurrent read plus write with an imaginary throughput of approximately 5 Gbps, it provides a possible 10-times boost on USB 2.0. If you can house the card, it is absolutely suggested.

This expansion card works grand, by the use of complete PCI-E bandwidth, and works on top of an ASUS P5Q-E motherboard through a Q9400. The controller is a normal NEC controller, furthermore even if you include installing the drivers meant for the SATA along with the USB straightforwardly from the disk, it must work with an additional motherboard. It does by an elder ASUS anyhow. Merely issue is the card does not hold up RAID within Sata3, hope it did in that case it would be the finest.

A main advantage point of this card is that is allows eSATA on my motherboard which is renowned intended for having deprived marvel drivers which indicates that eSATA off the motherboard doesn't forever work beneath definite circumstances and with definite HDD's. My computer would BSOD every time I connected in my outer eSATA Hard disk. Currently I have fixed the outer eSATA port on my computer case toward one of the 6GB/s SATA ports lying on the card and eSATA flies beside at about 60MB/s standard.

The USB3 ports operated off the strike, absolutely. Considering crests of 250MB/s on a LaCie 500GB exterior USB3 drive through a 5400rpm drives inside it!! It settles behind to wherever from 60-90MB/s while sending huge (30+GB) files crossways. I haven't attempted a 7200 rpm drive by way of it so far. Having huge problems by the use of a 2 meter USB3 expansion cable however. Whichever drive I connect by the use of expansion cable merely connects and disconnects at accidental, continually. This barely occurs while the expansion cable is connected in - thus it's not anything to make with the card.