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Although if you have a external hard drive hooked up, make sure it's hooked to a USB directly to the motherboard, makes a difference in how fast it can access it from idle mode. Running an old Dell Dimension 3000 and I needed to get some more USB ports. Threw this in and runs like a charm.
I can't say anything about bench marks, but the ease of installation combined with the price made them 5 stars to me. Worked flawlessly. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002M4HU0/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title I have a couple of old Compaq Presario 6000s (from 2003) running on AMD CPUs. I installed the 2.0 cards so I could run some new peripherals.
This is just barely out of USB 1.0 territory, and no where near the speed of any of the other interfaces I've used. Unfortunately, this is the slowest USB 2.0 interface I've ever used. My fastest USB Flash drives (the 8GB Kingston HyperX and 64GB Patriot Magnum), which normally give read speeds of around 33mbps, test out at 8mbps tops with this card. I'm a computer veteran of 29 years. You get what you pay for here I'm afraid. It uses the standard Windows drivers. This card works well with both my 32-bit Windows XP and 64-bit Windows OS. However, I was seeing slow transfers, so I tested my drives using HD Tune 2.55 (free download - amazing utility).
Sweet. Device Manager immediately went from USB Device to USB 2.0 Device. Installed in XP computer. Instantly detected, no additional setup/drivers required.
Intel box that only has USB 1.0 on the motherboard. Sure I could have bought a card at 1/3 the price but I didn't think saving $10 was worth the hassle of needing yet another card.I would have given this card a 5-star rating but I reserve that for outstanding performance and am not cynical enough to think "works as advertised" is "outstanding". After all, no one is going to advertise non-compliance.
These drives depend upon the USB port for power. This card works fine with Linux and I have connected up to three WD drives simultaneously without a single disappointment. The WD drive has worked on every other box I have so I can only conclude that the original 2.0 card was either non-compliant or suffered an unusual failure.
My biggest concerns when buying this were:1) Does it work with Linux.2) Does it really meet USB 2.0 spec.Unfortunately, #2 is really hard to determine. The previous 2.0 card (a cheapo) experienced a current overload and no longer functions after I connected a 250GB WD Passport drive.
What started all of this was I have an old (3-years old is OLD.). I am currently running Linux Fedora 9 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i68.
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