PCI USB3.0?

[Mercutio]

Anyone know where I could get a PCI USB3 controller? I haven't looked very hard but I could use one.

 

[LunarMist]

No. I could use one too.

 

[Will Rickards]

I think if you bought one of those external usb 3.0 drives they came bundled with a card. Maybe research who's card it is?

 

[ddrueding]

I've purchased 3 of the 3TB USB3.0 drives, and none have come with a card. Of course, all my Gigabyte motherboards already have at least one 3.0 port.

 

[Will Rickards]

It was the WD one. Linky

 

[Will Rickards]

Looks like a pci express card. All the other ones I found online seem like pci express too.

 

[timwhit]

How about here?

 

[Mercutio]

All the "PCI" cards I can find are mislabeled PCIe.

 

[Sol]

I don't think there are any PCI based USB3 controller chips. (Presumably if there were we'd see multiple cards based on the same chip)

Possibly the inability of a standard PCI interface to allow a USB3 controller to run at anywhere near full speed makes getting such a chip certified problematic.

 

[LunarMist]

That is my feeling as well. It's too bad, because 90-100 MB/sec. transfers would be fine. I mean, we lived with PCI controllers for years. :bigeek:

 

[Mercutio]

That is my feeling as well. It's too bad, because 90-100 MB/sec. transfers would be fine. I mean, we lived with PCI controllers for years. :bigeek:

Exactly. It's not like a normal hard disk is going to be bottlenecked by PCI.
I'm actually thinking about the fact that a lot of the servers I have out in the world don't have PCIe slots. I can buy eSATA portable drives but I'm thinking that, going forward, it'll be a lot easier to find a USB3 port than an eSATA one.