SYBA 2-Port USB 3.0 PCI-Express Card, x1, Etron Chipset EJ168A with Full & Low Profile Brackets Model SD-PEX20158

Pros: Win 10 installed it's own version of a USB 3.0 driver, which works fine.

Cons: In the Overview it says "Internal HDD Power Connector for Supply Extra +5V Power to USB Ports". Sounds like you would only need the extra power to run a 2.5" drive, or something like a charger. The power connecter is not just for "Extra" power, you have to have it for the unit to work. Could have been a little clearer about that.

Overall Review: On a Win 7 machine upgraded to Win 10 it works. I didn't have an extra sata power plug, but I did find I had a spare molex to sata adapter, so it worked out ok. Gave 5 eggs because it was easy to install, and works.

Pros: Full USB 3.0 speed uses SATA power adapter which most PCs have these days.

Cons: I had a similar card before and the driver became corrupt somehow and it did not work. I tried updating and removing but it did not help. I had to remove the oem inf file from the drivers folder and remove it completely before I could re-install and then it worked fine.

Pros: easy to install came with low profile bracket

Cons: none at all

Overall Review: my external portable usb 3.0 drive went from reading/writing at 30mbs to reading/writing 133mbs

Pros: Bought two because I had a Windows machine and a Linux machine that only had USB-2. This was very inexpensive but worked perfectly. Had drivers for XP and Win7, none needed for Linux.

Cons: None, but don't forget to hook up the power cable.

Pros: Uses PCIe x1 port and worked fine on my old P5e fully loaded mombo: Pair of HD5850 and SB X-Fi sound. For windows 7 download the 118 driver package. Dont bother with the one on the disk. Shows up as "Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Host Controller" and also "Etron USB3.0 Extensible Root Hub"

Cons: Does not have the latest driver but came with instructions on how to find them.

Overall Review: First tried an Orico and then a Renesas (Nec chip) USB3 and the provided drivers could not even recognized their boards and neither vendor provided info on newer drivers. Orico uses Fresco drivers and if you go to the Fresco site the links to their drivers are missing. After trying both of those X1 boards I remembered that I had used Etron's X4 board that had eSata as well as USB3 and I sure enough I found this X1 board on Newegg and it worked fine just like their X4 with eSata.

Pros: Straight forward card, nothing really difficult. I use it the Syba drive caddy I have. Comes with the driver disc for Windoz.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I don't use it with Windoz so I can't comment on how that works. I have it on a Linux system. The EJ168A is a Linux compatable chip set. Still trying to find drivers to make it work. That is not a problem with the card, that's a problem with the system. I'm sure there is a proper syntax to make it work in Linux.

Overall Review: I would recommend and purchase this product again if I needed it. Be sure to get a power cord for this item.

Pros: Plugged it into my Win 7 pro system and it worked well after loading the drivers. Does what it was supposed to. Would buy again.

Cons: none