http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/ Engadget Comments for Green House delivers USB 3.0-friendly PCI Express interface card http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
Everybody was like ooh I have to get one of these controller cards when USB came out, then again with USB2.

I'm just going to wait until I don't have to go out of my way to get a motherboard with it built in. By then a few reasonably priced accessories might actually be taking advantage of the accessories.

]]>Feb 11th 2010 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/I don't really know the true (hypothetical) speeds of 3.0.]]>Feb 9th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
Yeah, USB 2.0 was max 500mA. USB 3.0 is 900mA. That still means that there is a max of 1.8A @ 5V unless they've decided to violate the spec and allow devices to draw more than they should.]]>Feb 9th 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Maybe the controller draws too much power? (he says while talking out of his ass)]]>Feb 9th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/beat me to it, but still nobody has touched the obvious bandwith issues that pcie-1x has.]]>Feb 9th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
500MB/s should cut it. ]]>Feb 9th 2010 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/4296521/art/asus/usb-3-0-sata-pci-express.html?srcid=867

The asus U3S6 is £24+]]>Feb 9th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
Yeah, seriously. And I believe it supports SATA 6Gb also and costs $29.99 on that eggy site.]]>Feb 9th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
The problem is that you need a x4-capable slot to use it. Some boards don't have one other than the slot used by the video card.

And that also explains why the cards only have two ports. A 4-port card would need to be x16, and most mobo's only have one slot, which is usually already in use by video. Most dual or triple x16 boards are bought by people who are filling those slots by 2 or 3 video cards, so still no available slots.

Maybe USB3 will prod mobo manufacturers to add an extra slot or two. Or maybe for Intel to add more I/O interfaces to their chips/chipsets. Or hopefully both. A high-end box could use three x16s for video, an x16 for SATA 6g and another x16 for 4-ports of USB3. The infrastructure doesn't support 5 x16 slots.]]>Feb 9th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
When copying a 13GB file from my SSD Corsair X-128 to the USB 3.0 hard drive, transfer speed is at 130 MB/sec under Win7 64bit.
When plugged to an USB 2.0 port, transfer speed is at 25 MB/sec.

So USB 3.0 is around 5 times faster for me.]]>Feb 9th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Feb 9th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.32407]]>Feb 10th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/09/green-house-delivers-usb-3-0-friendly-pci-express-interface-card/Anyways these guys are constantly adding usb3.0 products to there list.
http://www.cut-rate-gizmos.com/14-usb-3]]>Apr 25th 2010 3:43PM