Add SuperSpeed USB Connections to Your PC Notebook Computer
Your PC notebook computer has USB 2.0 ports, and they’ve served you well. Talk about compatibility - keyboards, mice, printers, scanners, joysticks, digital cameras, flash drives - what couldn you not you plug in? Talk about performance - well, that’s where USB ports 2.0 are merely passable - they limit data transfer speeds to around 25–30 MB/s. For most peripherals, that’s perfectly adequate, but when you connect an external drive and expect great performance, that bottleneck is a problem - video editing, backing up, and other data-intensive activities suffer as a result. Enter Sonnet’s USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter, the bottleneck breaker! This Sonnet host controller is based on the new USB 3.0 standard that offers up to 10x the performance of the decade-old USB 2.0 interface. A single hard drive with a USB 3.0 interface is capable of transferring data at up to 125 MB/s, while SSDs (solid state drives) are capable of even faster transfers - insert Sonnet's USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter into your computer ExpressCard slot to exploit the full performance potential of these fast drives(1).
Sonnet’s USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 works in ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54 slots. Each of this card’s ports supports bus-powered peripherals (devices that work without a separate power supply, including some external drives and scanners). Not only is this card backward-compatible with your USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 peripherals, it also supports hot-swappable device connection. Insert Sonnet’s USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter into your PC notebook to experience the super speed of USB 3.0 connectivity firsthand.
Simple way to add two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports to any compatible PC notebook computer
Transfers data up to 10x faster than over USB 2.0 connections
Supports hot-swappable device connection—plug in and disconnect peripherals without shutting off your computer
Powered ports support bus-powered drives
Use Sonnet’s USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 with your PC notebook to exploit the full performance potential of the latest hard drives and SSDs with a USB 3.0 interface
Hardware
- Warranty:
1-year
- Bus Interface:
ExpressCard/34, PCI Express interface
- Peripherals Supported:
Supports all industry standard USB 3.0, 2.0, and 1.1 peripherals
- Cables Supported:
USB 3.0 with Standard-A male connector
USB 2.0 with Standard-A male connector
- Chipset:
NEC
USB Support
- Number of Ports:
2 external
- Standard:
USB v. 3.0/2.0/1.1 compatible.
Complies with OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface), EHCI (Enhanced Host Controller Interface) and
xHCI (eXtensible Host Controller Interface) standards
- Data Transfer Rates:
USB 3.0: 5 Gbps
USB 2.0: 480 Mbps
USB 1.1: 12 Mbps
- Number of Devices Supported:
Up to 127
- Hot Plug:
Supports hot-pluggable and hot swappable device connection
- Package Contents:
USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 host controller card
Quick start guide
Compatibility
- PC notebook with ExpressCard/34 or ExpressCard/54 slot
- Windows® 7
- Windows Vista®
- Windows XP
Not currently Mac compatible