![]() ![]() ![]() The other nice thing about this hub is that it is in fact a 3.5″ bay hub that comes with a 5.25″ bay adapter. Since the PCI Express card which makes up the other half of this combination kit has an internal USB 3.0 port, this means you do not have to snake a cable outside your case to get four front-mounted SuperSpeed USB ports. Much like the SIIG external 4 port USB 3.0 hub, I recently looked at, the 4 port 3.5″/5.25″ bay hub uses a single USB 3.0 port and turns it into FOUR via its use of a single VIL810 controller chip. Though without the other half of this combination 2-in-1 kit, the USB 3.0 PCI-E adapter card by itself, is not all that useful and this is where the other half comes into play. In the meantime, this small card is one special USB 3.0 adapter card that makes it very impressive. Of course, as time goes by motherboard and cases will start coming with “proper” internal USB 3.0 headers and front panel connectivity options so this niche will disappear. This means that you can use any USB 3.0 cable you own to connect to the front USB 3.0 port(s), but as time goes by its usefulness will diminish. While the power interface is different, what really makes this card special is the addition of an internal USB 3.0 header port albeit it still is an “external” style port and not a true internal port. The first is a fairly typical looking, NEC / Renesas-based PCI-E x1 interface SuperSpeed USB adapter card, just one which uses a fairly non-standard SATA power port for additional power input rather than a MOLEX connector. As you can see, this combination kit consists of two separate but equally important components. ![]()
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