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(13 customer reviews) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Ultra 6 Port Pci USB 2.0 Card,
May 5, 2007 Hercules1960 (Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 6 Port Pci USB 2.0 Card (Personal Computers)
Installation was quick and easy! Windows XP detected the new hardware and installed the drivers for it.
It works with every USB 2.0 device I have, EXCEPT my new Fuji Finepix S6000fd camera and my new Olympus MAUSB200 memory card reader using XD type M memory. The camera with it's large picture files was the sole reason for this USB card purchase.
To be completely fair, I must add that I read in the camera's owners manual later that they (Fuji) only guarantees the Camera's USB connection to work with a factory installed USB port. The camera and card reader work fine on the factory installed USB 1 ports on 2 different computers.
If you plan on using this card with a Fuji S6000fd camera, buy something else. This card won't work with it! I even installed the Ultra driver and it still won't work with the camera or the card reader.
Other than this the Ultra 6 Port Pci USB 2.0 card works fine with all other USB items I've attached to it.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Works with 64-bit Vista, but is exceptionally slow for USB 2.0,
February 18, 2009 Gonga (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 6 Port Pci USB 2.0 Card (Personal Computers)
I'm a computer veteran of 29 years. This card works well with both my 32-bit Windows XP and 64-bit Windows OS. It uses the standard Windows drivers. However, I was seeing slow transfers, so I tested my drives using HD Tune 2.55 (free download - amazing utility!). Unfortunately, this is the slowest USB 2.0 interface I've ever used. My fastest USB Flash drives (the 8GB Kingston HyperX and 64GB Patriot Magnum), which normally give read speeds of around 33mbps, test out at 8mbps tops with this card. This is just barely out of USB 1.0 territory, and no where near the speed of any of the other interfaces I've used. You get what you pay for here I'm afraid!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Works like a champ,
November 23, 2008 This review is from: 6 Port Pci USB 2.0 Card (Personal Computers)
My biggest concerns when buying this were:
1) Does it work with Linux?
2) Does it really meet USB 2.0 spec?
Unfortunately, #2 is really hard to determine. After all, no one is going to advertise non-compliance. What started all of this was I have an old (3-years old is OLD?!!) Intel box that only has USB 1.0 on the motherboard. I am currently running Linux Fedora 9 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i68. The previous 2.0 card (a cheapo) experienced a current overload and no longer functions after I connected a 250GB WD Passport drive. These drives depend upon the USB port for power. The WD drive has worked on every other box I have so I can only conclude that the original 2.0 card was either non-compliant or suffered an unusual failure.
Sure I could have bought a card at 1/3 the price but I didn't think saving $10 was worth the hassle of needing yet another card.
I would have given this card a 5-star rating but I reserve that for outstanding performance and am...Read more
