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I plugged in two drives and there was no setup required! Pure plug and play and the speed is limited to your PCIE available bandwidth.

Does exactly what I need it to. It allows me to connect the USB-C cable from my PC case to my older motherboard that doesn't have a proper connector.

My Asus motherboard M3A78 is about 8 years old but I'm too broke to upgrade the motherboard and the PC has been rock solid since day one. The StarTech USB 3 card adapter allowed me back up about 71-gigs of files on the C: drive (SSD) to a USB 3 docking station holding a traditional hard disk in about 10 minutes. Backups were taking 30+ minutes using the built-in USB 2.0 ports, so I'm very happy with the result. Just install the card, find the setup file on the CD and run it, then reboot. All is good.

Looks to be well made with the SATA ports attached solidly to the card (I purchased a few from other manf. in the past where the SATA ports broke or became loose and I had to super-glue them back on). Easy install: -- driver support as far back as kernel 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64, so happy about that! -- came with power and SATA cables - so it's a complete package for the price.

Well made adapter, with a rectangular cutout to allow for venting of heat. Also, slotted holes give slack to the drive for install into connector.

I have a P67 board with pcie 2.0 from an i5- 2500 non k cpu and a Toshiba XG5 256GB NVMe drive, this drive has stated speeds of 2700 MB/s read and 1050 MB/s write. Because my system is only pcie 2.0 i loose half of the theoretical speed so I get 1500 MB/s read and the stated 1050 MB/s write. In order for the card to be seen by the OS your bios needs to absolutely be UEFI, otherwise it will NOT be detected, i had to flash my mobo bios to latest bios which was uefi and then inserted the required NVMe files in the bios. In order to get pcie 3.0 on the 1155 socket you need to have 3000 series i5 and i7, lower cpus from 3000 series are only pcie 2.0! The card also has 4 green LEDs that blink nicely when the drive is being accessed. In theory , after inserting the NVMe modules in the bios it should be bootable, but for me it doesn't work, it is detected in bios as PATA SS device, but no dice. For older systems that are not UEFI natively, only Samsung 950pro is bootable in LEGACY mode! I am upgrading my rig to H170 + i3-7100 so no more issues.

Works perfectly adding SATA III to my old motherboard that's been pressed into service as a NAS with SSDs. Open Media Vault 8.3 recognized the card and drives right out of the box. It took longer to get the case open and install the card than it did to get the system up and running!

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