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Started By HSS-Dave, Jun 25 2012 08:37 PM
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#1 HSS-Dave

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:37 PM

I've got an external USB 3.0 drive waiting for me when I get back to WI and not a single USB 3 port to plug it into. I'm thinking of getting two cards, one for my server, and one for my Win 7 PC. Just in case I want to move the drive around a little.

What would you recommend?
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#2 Joe_Miner

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:58 PM

I've had good luck with the Western Digital USB 3.0 PCIe Card in my Microserver.

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:09 PM

Paul (tinkerguy) has used this card. I bought one as well but have not tried it. Paul had bench marked these and was very happy with it.

http://www.highpoint...144A-Series.htm

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 06:35 AM

Paul (tinkerguy) has used this card. I bought one as well but have not tried it. Paul had bench marked these and was very happy with it.

http://www.highpoint...144A-Series.htm


Nice looking card -- I like the 4 ports! You planning to do a review in the future?

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 09:11 AM

Paul (tinkerguy) has used this card. I bought one as well but have not tried it. Paul had bench marked these and was very happy with it.

http://www.highpoint...144A-Series.htm


The newegg reviews on this card are certainly a lot better than the previous HighPoint USB3 card. I considered it and then rejected it because of the huge number of bad reviews. Glad this one seems to be a lot better. I went with the WD card and it seems to be good.

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