Syba SD-PEX50055 2 Port USB 3.0 and 2 Port SATA III PCIe 2.0 x4 Controller Card Green Grey

Me ayudo a mejorar la eficiencia de mis discos duros al no tener sata 3 en la placa

Me ayudo a mejorar la eficiencia de mis discos duros al no tener sata 3 en la placa

hoy dia casi todas las conexiones son usb 3.0 con esta tarjeta se soluciona tus problemas de conexion . .

hoy dia casi todas las conexiones son usb 3.0 con esta tarjeta se soluciona tus problemas de conexion . .

Habe das Produkt vom Voranbieter um weniger als die hälfte zu 27 euro noch bekommen, wollte 2 Wochen später eines nachbestellen aber nicht zu diesem unverschämten nunmehr über verdoppelten Preis. Das Produkt selbst ist ok und erfüllt seinen Zweck, hatte damit einen PC mit nur einem Steckplatz um SATA und USB Anschlüsse erweitert. Zu diesem mehr als verdoppelten Preis werde ich aber keines mehr nachbestellen, da gibt es weitaus günstigere Anbieter.

Habe das Produkt vom Voranbieter um weniger als die hälfte zu 27 euro noch bekommen, wollte 2 Wochen später eines nachbestellen aber nicht zu diesem unverschämten nunmehr über verdoppelten Preis. Das Produkt selbst ist ok und erfüllt seinen Zweck, hatte damit einen PC mit nur einem Steckplatz um SATA und USB Anschlüsse erweitert. Zu diesem mehr als verdoppelten Preis werde ich aber keines mehr nachbestellen, da gibt es weitaus günstigere Anbieter.

It gave worse performance than my onboard SATA II ports - marginally better sequential read/write, but worse random write IOPS. I ensured that it was plugged into a sufficient PCI-e 2.0 16X slot, installed the drivers, etc.I contacted support, and they did get back to me quickly via email with questions, but then nothing after I replied a couple times to them.Did not come with the cables that the box indicates it should (the optional LED cable and the optional power cable)Even after hooking up the LED cables to the header pins on this card as indicated by the instructions, the case HD activity LED does not work.The package seemed as though it was previously opened, so I didn't trust the included driver CD, which was very generic looking, no manufacturer name or anything. The manual tells you to download drivers from driver-download.com, which is some third-party driver site - I found this sketchy. I downloaded drivers from the manufacturer site directly (I usually do this with all hardware to ensure I have the most recent drivers). I realize this card is probably made by some company that markets through various other companies, hence the non-branded driver CD and website, but it doesn't give me much faith that the drivers are legitimate and not full of viruses.I ended up getting an OWC Accelsior S card, which requires no drivers, the SDD mounts directly to it, and gives great performance.

It gave worse performance than my onboard SATA II ports - marginally better sequential read/write, but worse random write IOPS. I ensured that it was plugged into a sufficient PCI-e 2.0 16X slot, installed the drivers, etc.I contacted support, and they did get back to me quickly via email with questions, but then nothing after I replied a couple times to them.Did not come with the cables that the box indicates it should (the optional LED cable and the optional power cable)Even after hooking up the LED cables to the header pins on this card as indicated by the instructions, the case HD activity LED does not work.The package seemed as though it was previously opened, so I didn't trust the included driver CD, which was very generic looking, no manufacturer name or anything. The manual tells you to download drivers from driver-download.com, which is some third-party driver site - I found this sketchy. I downloaded drivers from the manufacturer site directly (I usually do this with all hardware to ensure I have the most recent drivers). I realize this card is probably made by some company that markets through various other companies, hence the non-branded driver CD and website, but it doesn't give me much faith that the drivers are legitimate and not full of viruses.I ended up getting an OWC Accelsior S card, which requires no drivers, the SDD mounts directly to it, and gives great performance.

This card did everything it was advertised to do without any issues. The card is in an Asus M4A78 Plus motherboard, with an ssd attached as the boot device, running Windows 7. I did not have to run a speed test to immediately notice the ssd responded quite a bit quicker than when it was attached to the motherboard's SATA II ports. If I did run a test, I'm sure I'd get the same results as shown in the other reviews. With the USB 3 ports, this card delivers good bang for the buck.To minimize issues, make sure you:- attach a legacy floppy power plug to the card- use the latest USB drivers from the *Etron* website, rather than the Syba website- If your motherboard claims PCIE 2.0 compliance, verify the slot you plug the card into really is PCIE 2.0 compliant. Only the x16 slots on my board supported PCIE 2.0.Syba recommends reinstalling or repairing the (Windows) OS if you choose to use this as a boot device on an existing system. This is not necessary. To migrate an existing boot drive over to a new sata controller, do the following:1) insert the card with no hard drives attached2) boot into Windows and load the usb & sata drivers for the card.3) Power down after the drivers have been successfully loaded.4) move the sata cable of your boot drive from the old controller over to the new controller.5) Power up.6) You may need to enter the BIOS setup and reassign which drive should be the boot drive (I did not have to do this).7) Boot to the desktop and reboot one more time if Windows prompts you to.Of course, if you are running Linux, you don't have to do any of this. Just plug it in and go. :-)My only complaint is the lack of documentation explaining that, despite the card requiring a x4 PCIE slot, SATA & USB performance will each peak at x1. One can discover this by Googling the specs on the Etron EJ168a and Asmedia ASM1061 chipsets. Each chip uses just one PCIE lane. Syba should be more forthcoming with this information.Despite this, I still think this card has good value for those looking for a budget sata controller.

This card did everything it was advertised to do without any issues. The card is in an Asus M4A78 Plus motherboard, with an ssd attached as the boot device, running Windows 7. I did not have to run a speed test to immediately notice the ssd responded quite a bit quicker than when it was attached to the motherboard's SATA II ports. If I did run a test, I'm sure I'd get the same results as shown in the other reviews. With the USB 3 ports, this card delivers good bang for the buck.To minimize issues, make sure you:- attach a legacy floppy power plug to the card- use the latest USB drivers from the *Etron* website, rather than the Syba website- If your motherboard claims PCIE 2.0 compliance, verify the slot you plug the card into really is PCIE 2.0 compliant. Only the x16 slots on my board supported PCIE 2.0.Syba recommends reinstalling or repairing the (Windows) OS if you choose to use this as a boot device on an existing system. This is not necessary. To migrate an existing boot drive over to a new sata controller, do the following:1) insert the card with no hard drives attached2) boot into Windows and load the usb & sata drivers for the card.3) Power down after the drivers have been successfully loaded.4) move the sata cable of your boot drive from the old controller over to the new controller.5) Power up.6) You may need to enter the BIOS setup and reassign which drive should be the boot drive (I did not have to do this).7) Boot to the desktop and reboot one more time if Windows prompts you to.Of course, if you are running Linux, you don't have to do any of this. Just plug it in and go. :-)My only complaint is the lack of documentation explaining that, despite the card requiring a x4 PCIE slot, SATA & USB performance will each peak at x1. One can discover this by Googling the specs on the Etron EJ168a and Asmedia ASM1061 chipsets. Each chip uses just one PCIE lane. Syba should be more forthcoming with this information.Despite this, I still think this card has good value for those looking for a budget sata controller.

Ancienne configuration, mais avec intel duo quad quand mêmeil manquait de l'usb et du sata 3.0, avac cette carte c'est nickelmême si les débits sont limités sur port PCIe 1.0, boot sans problèmereconnu usb 3.0 et sata 3.0.Seul hic les drivers avec W10 64 bits installation manuelle.Je recommande !

Ancienne configuration, mais avec intel duo quad quand mêmeil manquait de l'usb et du sata 3.0, avac cette carte c'est nickelmême si les débits sont limités sur port PCIe 1.0, boot sans problèmereconnu usb 3.0 et sata 3.0.Seul hic les drivers avec W10 64 bits installation manuelle.Je recommande !

My old Intel P45 Mobo has always had its share of problems with new hardware. I was unable to run my Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500 GB drive under AHCI and had to set up the BIOS for RAID before I could even install Win8.1. This isn't surprising given that the BIOS hasn't been updated in a dog's age - typical for Inte. To add to that, one of the Intel "drivers" RST (Rapid Storage Technology) seems to cache some drive data, so the Samsung Magician shows throughput well in excess of the drive's capabilities - 2100 MB/s. The drive is supposedly capable of streaming at about 540 MB/s, so there's some trickery going on there making any estimate of drive throughput difficult to either measure of estimate.The Syba drivers are also old, though not as old as the Intel drivers are, and the install instructions state that if you have Win8.0 or above the drivers aren't necessary. I emailed Syba and asked about the PCIe lanes and was told that "this device utilizes four PCI-e (sic) lanes. The lanes are a shared throughput for all ports on the card. When accessing multiple devices at a time the lanes will then begin to split to accommodate the larger workload."When I went to the Syba card's website (http://www.drivers-download.com/Datasheet/ESU30A/ESU30A_DataSheet_20130118.pdf), unless this site shows an older card, the card only uses two lanes. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and I suspect that if the site cited is for this card, the confusion on the part of Syba tech support was perhaps due to either their documentation, or their interpretation of it. PCIe v2 supports 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) or 500 Megabytes per second (MBps) per lane, so the aggregate of a two-lane card is 8 Gbps or 1 GBps, far more than what either SATA 3.0 (specified at 6Gbps/600 MBps) or USB 3.0 (specified at 5 Gbps). I don't see any problem there since the commonly expressed question of "but what about when two devices are sending data at the same time?" is really moot at these speeds, first because two transfers arriving to the board at exactly the same nano-second in time is highly remote, and if it does, they are queued and we would not note any discernable time lag.I further suspect that limitations or failures to perform at the expected speed for any device attached to this card are more likely to be on the PCIe side of the equation than on the card's. Just a cursory look at the card reveals that there are only two main chips, and they contain all of the circuitry necessary for the card's operation, which, I can only assume, were designed to meet the specifications they claim. In the case of my old P45 Mobo, who really knows how closely to the PCIe v2.0 specifications was the board designed "back in the day." Overall, I'm quite impressed with SATA throughput, and I did have some benchmarks to compare the card to, namely the one SSD and three Hard drives formerly attached to the SATA ports on my MOBO. As for the hard drives, they neither gained any throughput when moved to the Syba card, nor lost any, a pretty good sign that the card is performing to specifications. Had they increased the hard-drive throughput I would have been surprised. On the other hand, had the Syba card reduced their respective throughputs it would have indicated that the card was underperforming. I know, "The question though is whether or not it improved the throughput of my SSD?" and that's more difficult to assess. Boot time is much faster, but again, throughput using the Samsung Magician is all but obscured, so I can't site figures on this. For the record, Magician says 1561 and 1289 Megabytes/sec. In addition to whatever Intel RST did, there's also the Samsung "Rapid Mode" obscuring the actual throughput, but maybe I'm picking nits. Even though there has to be some RAM caching going on to account for these numbers, I'm satisfied.As to the USB speed, I have no way to determine that, but I can say that under Windows 10, I don't think I'm getting the full charging current promised, probably because the card is not really recognized by Win10 as being a Syba card, let alone which Syba card it is. Because the company that manufactures these cards (undoubtedly not Syba unless that's just their American name) manufactures a whole line of single- and multi-purpose cards for USB as well as another SATA 3 card, all of which I'm pretty sure share identical PLAs or circuit-on-a-chip, I would suspect that drivers would be the same across the board. I would also suspect that had the cards been submitted to MS or been tested using MS driver DDK, the device manager would recognize them - which it does not. A little more work here by Syba would ensure that the correct drivers were written and would run under Win10 properly. The default of "Generic Microsoft drivers identifying the card and it's functions" leaves something to be desired. On the other hand, my clunky BIOS might also explain that as well.By the way, I should also note that with the card installed I was able to set my BIOS to AHCI, and boot properly with Win8.1. However, there was a complication - again, my clunker-of-a-bios - in that I had to find the card under USB, then upgrade the drivers for the USB port before the SATA ports were correctly identified, a point that some owners of older Mobos might find useful. As advertised, when I upgraded to Win10 no drivers were necessary (and installing them didn't seem to make any difference whether accepted by, or rejected by Win10 - I couldn't tell which). Still, my tablet says that it would charge faster, even after installing the charger drivers, if I'd plug it into the charger it came with, an inconvenience, but not a deal-breaker if indeed true, and yes, I did hook up a floppy power connector to the card as described.One final nit-pick: would it hurt to include the (optional, as stated on the web site cited above) drive activity cable necessary to bring the Mobo activity signal to the Syba card? Personally, I don't care about the power cable as I have plenty of both connectors on my P/S and spares lying around, but I'm sure that makes me a little unusual compared to the average user who might need that power cable to complete their setup. Since these cables are literally only pennies wholesale I can't see where it would add to the price of the card, and since it has dropped $5 since I bought it 10 days ago or so, really, would it hurt to include the cables? My picks are minimal and my appreciation of the card maximal which is why it got five stars. It was a far cheaper solution that buying a new processor chip to replace my "old" $1,000 chip, a new Mobo, and all new DDR4 RAM, so I'd call that a bargain.

My old Intel P45 Mobo has always had its share of problems with new hardware. I was unable to run my Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500 GB drive under AHCI and had to set up the BIOS for RAID before I could even install Win8.1. This isn't surprising given that the BIOS hasn't been updated in a dog's age - typical for Inte. To add to that, one of the Intel "drivers" RST (Rapid Storage Technology) seems to cache some drive data, so the Samsung Magician shows throughput well in excess of the drive's capabilities - 2100 MB/s. The drive is supposedly capable of streaming at about 540 MB/s, so there's some trickery going on there making any estimate of drive throughput difficult to either measure of estimate.The Syba drivers are also old, though not as old as the Intel drivers are, and the install instructions state that if you have Win8.0 or above the drivers aren't necessary. I emailed Syba and asked about the PCIe lanes and was told that "this device utilizes four PCI-e (sic) lanes. The lanes are a shared throughput for all ports on the card. When accessing multiple devices at a time the lanes will then begin to split to accommodate the larger workload."When I went to the Syba card's website (http://www.drivers-download.com/Datasheet/ESU30A/ESU30A_DataSheet_20130118.pdf), unless this site shows an older card, the card only uses two lanes. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and I suspect that if the site cited is for this card, the confusion on the part of Syba tech support was perhaps due to either their documentation, or their interpretation of it. PCIe v2 supports 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) or 500 Megabytes per second (MBps) per lane, so the aggregate of a two-lane card is 8 Gbps or 1 GBps, far more than what either SATA 3.0 (specified at 6Gbps/600 MBps) or USB 3.0 (specified at 5 Gbps). I don't see any problem there since the commonly expressed question of "but what about when two devices are sending data at the same time?" is really moot at these speeds, first because two transfers arriving to the board at exactly the same nano-second in time is highly remote, and if it does, they are queued and we would not note any discernable time lag.I further suspect that limitations or failures to perform at the expected speed for any device attached to this card are more likely to be on the PCIe side of the equation than on the card's. Just a cursory look at the card reveals that there are only two main chips, and they contain all of the circuitry necessary for the card's operation, which, I can only assume, were designed to meet the specifications they claim. In the case of my old P45 Mobo, who really knows how closely to the PCIe v2.0 specifications was the board designed "back in the day." Overall, I'm quite impressed with SATA throughput, and I did have some benchmarks to compare the card to, namely the one SSD and three Hard drives formerly attached to the SATA ports on my MOBO. As for the hard drives, they neither gained any throughput when moved to the Syba card, nor lost any, a pretty good sign that the card is performing to specifications. Had they increased the hard-drive throughput I would have been surprised. On the other hand, had the Syba card reduced their respective throughputs it would have indicated that the card was underperforming. I know, "The question though is whether or not it improved the throughput of my SSD?" and that's more difficult to assess. Boot time is much faster, but again, throughput using the Samsung Magician is all but obscured, so I can't site figures on this. For the record, Magician says 1561 and 1289 Megabytes/sec. In addition to whatever Intel RST did, there's also the Samsung "Rapid Mode" obscuring the actual throughput, but maybe I'm picking nits. Even though there has to be some RAM caching going on to account for these numbers, I'm satisfied.As to the USB speed, I have no way to determine that, but I can say that under Windows 10, I don't think I'm getting the full charging current promised, probably because the card is not really recognized by Win10 as being a Syba card, let alone which Syba card it is. Because the company that manufactures these cards (undoubtedly not Syba unless that's just their American name) manufactures a whole line of single- and multi-purpose cards for USB as well as another SATA 3 card, all of which I'm pretty sure share identical PLAs or circuit-on-a-chip, I would suspect that drivers would be the same across the board. I would also suspect that had the cards been submitted to MS or been tested using MS driver DDK, the device manager would recognize them - which it does not. A little more work here by Syba would ensure that the correct drivers were written and would run under Win10 properly. The default of "Generic Microsoft drivers identifying the card and it's functions" leaves something to be desired. On the other hand, my clunky BIOS might also explain that as well.By the way, I should also note that with the card installed I was able to set my BIOS to AHCI, and boot properly with Win8.1. However, there was a complication - again, my clunker-of-a-bios - in that I had to find the card under USB, then upgrade the drivers for the USB port before the SATA ports were correctly identified, a point that some owners of older Mobos might find useful. As advertised, when I upgraded to Win10 no drivers were necessary (and installing them didn't seem to make any difference whether accepted by, or rejected by Win10 - I couldn't tell which). Still, my tablet says that it would charge faster, even after installing the charger drivers, if I'd plug it into the charger it came with, an inconvenience, but not a deal-breaker if indeed true, and yes, I did hook up a floppy power connector to the card as described.One final nit-pick: would it hurt to include the (optional, as stated on the web site cited above) drive activity cable necessary to bring the Mobo activity signal to the Syba card? Personally, I don't care about the power cable as I have plenty of both connectors on my P/S and spares lying around, but I'm sure that makes me a little unusual compared to the average user who might need that power cable to complete their setup. Since these cables are literally only pennies wholesale I can't see where it would add to the price of the card, and since it has dropped $5 since I bought it 10 days ago or so, really, would it hurt to include the cables? My picks are minimal and my appreciation of the card maximal which is why it got five stars. It was a far cheaper solution that buying a new processor chip to replace my "old" $1,000 chip, a new Mobo, and all new DDR4 RAM, so I'd call that a bargain.

This is a Great add on PCI card. Allows for two more USB 3.0 outside and adds two more SATA interfaces for extra hard drives inside my desktop. Drivers installed well on Win7-64bit and had no problems identifying the hard drives installed. Esy to install and easy to set up. Glad to have two more USB 3.0 ports that give greater speed than USB 2.0. Thank you Good purchase for the price as I could not find a local supplier for both devices in one.

This is a Great add on PCI card. Allows for two more USB 3.0 outside and adds two more SATA interfaces for extra hard drives inside my desktop. Drivers installed well on Win7-64bit and had no problems identifying the hard drives installed. Esy to install and easy to set up. Glad to have two more USB 3.0 ports that give greater speed than USB 2.0. Thank you Good purchase for the price as I could not find a local supplier for both devices in one.