Are these things any good? Just ordered a super cheap one from chinkland. Do the drivers even work on modern operating systems?
Are these things any good? Just ordered a super cheap one from chinkland...
Bentley Martinez
Elijah Torres
Lol. I just installed mine yesterday.
Weirdest thing. USB 3.0 works like charm BUT usb 3.0 ONLY.
Tried 3.0 pendrive and external hdd. Everything werks. 2 usb 2.0 pendrives and a mouse. Nope. Same external hdd through usb 2.0 cable. Nope.
I am fucking amazed with this wizardry.
Zachary Powell
bump
Samuel Roberts
if its the hdd is powered through the usb cable i hear it won't work cause expresscard can only deliver half the power a usb can
Logan Parker
Text on the box says it's 1.1 and 2.0 but then there's this picture.
Hdd gets power and spins with both cables. It's recognized with 3.0 only and works well with no additional power.
Jonathan Clark
*1.1 and 2.0 compatible
Ethan Thomas
Not yet
Gabriel King
The shitty ones may overheat
Nolan Hill
yet?
Jose Green
Some include a cable to draw power from a nearby port.
William Ward
some don't, though
Evan Baker
>Do the drivers even work on modern operating systems?
continue:
Drivers needed manual update in Win10
Also it was 0.25€ so it's top tier quality.
Sticks out a little bit OMM.
yeah I got this cable too. Thrown it away. Not needed for 2.5 hdd. But mine is single port. It may be necessary on dual port.
Ethan Miller
where'd you get the drivers from?
Samuel Diaz
They came on CD. I had to take my external dvd to out of drawer.
Wyatt Ramirez
I have this piece of shit, it "works" out of the box on linux and windows 10, but had to install drivers from cd on windows 7.
Keyboard, mouse and pendrives work, sharing the internet connection from my phone doesn't, linux and 7 failed to connect while windows 10 instantly crashed with a bluescreen.
Easton Rivera
>PCIe device
Why shouldn't it?
Dylan Reyes
Well yes windows 7 does not have native USB 3 drivers
Tyler Perry
Yeah that's reasonable and not really a problem, compared to the bluescreen on 10.
Justin Peterson
i have two thinkpads with those, they work good, but not for booting live usb thumbdrive linuxes, you have to use a stock usb port on the laptop, but once booted up they work good
Anthony Fisher
they get hot as fuck
Cooper Clark
Yes, they are good upgrade options for older laptops that have PCMCIA/PC-CARD but don't have features you need (extra wired network, wifi, USB2, USB3, serial port etc)