Quick delivery.After mounting the card, booting up the pc, then installing the drivers off the included cd, it worked instantly and perfectly.So when i need an expansion card i buy a Startech.

I ordered this specific item to try and obtain a low latency USB interface for audio.This is definitely better than most USB controllers available.

This is the best one for my oculus rift. I have the inatek one and was struggling to get all the connections to USB 3.0 plugged this startek card in and working perfect, USB 3.0 for all my usbs.

OverallI went through a few USB3 cards and they just barely beat USB2 performance, when they worked at all. So it was a great pleasure when this just plugged in and worked after loading the drivers, which come supplied on a CD.This board is really fast and lets you get the most out of your USB3 drives, especially external SSD drives, they really scream on this interface card. Hard disks or SSD is about the only thing that will benefit from USB3, most other things are slower, like a keyboard or mouse, even a TV USB box does not even tax USB2, but no doubt you will get a major boost in performance if you have USB3 drives currently plugged into USB2 ports.Overall this is a great product that does exactly what is says it will do. I would not hesitate to suggest this to a friend and am very happy with this purchase. This cost about twice as much as many of them but well worth it, it works.Hardware Installation Rating = 5The physical install is very easy, open your PC, find an empty slot and plug it in. You can optionally provide the card additional power by plugging in a spare SATA power cord in your PC. If you do not have a SATA type connection or no spare power cords in your PC you can get one from Amazon for under 10 bucks. (Older PC tend to have 4 pin Molex power connectors, if that is your case you can get a Molex to SATA adaptor here for under 10 bucks.The good news is that power cable is not required for the board to work unlike most of them, and if everything you plan to plug into it is powered itself then there is no need for the internal power. If you do plan to use the USB3 ports to power things you should hook up the extra power.Software Installation Rating = 5As easy as it gets, pop in the supplied CD and run set-up, reboot, and that is it. The CD I got had the most current drivers which was nice.Performance Rating = 5The real test was benchmarking it, with my original USB3 card I could not get more than about 90MB/s on a file copy, with this I am hitting 240 - 270MB/s, benchmarks and my USB3 SSD drive is insanely fast. With this card all of my USB3 drives are about twice as fast as with my old USB3 card. (the old one came with my PC and had an older chipset, it was faster than USB2 but not a lot.)Note: if you have USB2 drives this is not going to make them go faster unless you have an underperforming USB interface, which is unlikely) However if you have been using USB3 devices with USB2 you will be blown away how much faster they go. I also tried some old USB2 drives and they worked perfectly, albeit slower by nature than a USB3 drive, but it hit full USB2 speeds with USB2 drives.My system: HP Pavilion H8-1090t / Intel i7-990 Hex Core / 24GB RAM / 1xSSD internal SATA(500GB) / 2xSATA internal hard drives / 2xUSB3 2TB external drives (Seagate) / 1xUSB3 SSD (U32 Shadow)

Parfait fonctionne très bien

Habe diese Karte extra gekauft um diese mit dem beigelegten Low-Profile Winkel in einen Fujitsu Server einzubauen.Ergebnis: Passt nicht richtig, klemmt, Winkel ist ein paar mm zu lang.Mit Gewalt bekommt man es dann schon in den Server geschraubt, das Mainboard biegt sich aber etwas durch.Hätte mir von der Startech Marke etwas besseres erwartet. Drei Sterne.