[Tfug] USB3 *PCI* card

Zack Williams zdwzdw at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 20:24:43 MST 2012


> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815201060&name=Add-On-Cards

Wow... per specs, that's a 32-bit PCI-X 2.0 (266Mhz) card.

I don't think I've ever seen a logic board that supports more than
PCI-X 133Mhz, and even then that was a high end server board.

I'm betting that with that card you're unlikely to get more than about
120MB/s, unless you happen to have a 66Mhz slots, and even then any
PCIe 1.0 1x board would do much better.

Nearly all USB 3 host cards should be supported in linux, provided
they're XHCI compliant.

- Zack




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