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(15 customer reviews) 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
It has power!,
February 6, 2011 PartlyCloudy "Mike" (Decatur, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IOGEAR SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard GEU302 (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers)
For some reason, it is very difficult to tell if the USB 3.0 cards you are about to purchase really have an external power supply included. THIS PRODUCT DOES. I was finally able to use devices such as my Western Digital Passport drive.
Price point is good (especially compared to some that don't have external power), and it seems to use the same chipset most of the others do. No problems with it so far. Not 100% sure I am getting best speed out if it, but I am getting far better speed than I see through the built-in USB 2 ports on my Sony VAIO. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Works Great! Another Great IOGear Product,
March 12, 2011 FWEngr - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IOGEAR SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard GEU302 (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers)
The IOGear SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard GEU302 works great and even comes with an external power adapter to power USB 3.0 portable drives like WD's 'My Passport' external drive (the drive will not function with the addition power adapter). It maybe a little more expensive than other expresscards, but as an engineer it is a quality product that works and comes with an external power adapter and a 3 year warranty. It was hard finding a well known brand-name LOW profile USB 3.0 ExpressCard. IOGear has come through for me again with a well made product with an easy and trouble-free installation software. I say all this since my research has revealed other products failed easily or had a difficult driver installation, but this product has work exceptionally well. NOTE: I have only been able to achieve a 5x improvement over USB 2.0 (USB 3.0 states a 10x improvement), but this could be due to limitations of the expresscard and PCIe buses along with the bridge chipset used on my HP HDX18...Read more
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Works out of the box,
July 16, 2011 Graeme P. Garrett "Grazza Wazir" (Laos PDR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IOGEAR SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard GEU302 (Black/Silver) (Personal Computers)
Unpacked the unit, plugged it in and it asked for the CD and it just worked. No hassles with not finding drivers.
The advantage of buying this unit with the power supply was it is suited to the unit, all the reviews I read said that the external power supply was required to get full USB3 so rather than trying to source a power supply with the right voltage and right plug, it all came together. No problem.
Well recommended
