Syba4 Port USB 3.0 and 2 Port SATA III PCIe 2.0 X 1 Card VLI/ASMedia Chipset, SD-PEX50064

Unlike the previous reviewer, I did not have any real problems with this card. I deduct 1 star simply because the vertical alignment of the USB sockets is a little tight: - so when you fit the card, plug in something USB-ish at both extremes before you tighten the holding screw, because if your PC is anything like mine, the gap in the metalwork for vertically arranged connectors like these is barely wide enough!It does need to be borne in mind that 5G/s on USB3 is not going to happen on all 4 ports at once, especially if the SATA3 is also hammering away. This is because the PCIe x1 is a SINGLE CHANNEL, which on PCIe 2.0 standards is not going to quite sustain 5Gs let alone 6Gs! HOWEVER, all that said, my PC became a lot more responsive simply because the mouse and keyboard now have one of the original USB 2.0 channels on the motherboard all to themselves! And yes, USB3 and SATA3 drives are a bit faster than they were on USB2/SATA2 respectively - but not if they are all hammering away at the same time. Overall though, it does the job if you are stuck with a uATX motherboard and need USB3/SATA3. Want more performance? Then shell out on a proper ATX PC upgrade, you skinflint!

I bought this item because it was one of the few that offered USB3 and SATA3 with both standard and low profile brackets.It is described as PCIe2.0 compliant with backwards compatibility with PCIe 1.0A.I tried it in 2 PCs, one with an ASUS M3N78-VM mobo that is PCIe 2.0 compliant and a Dell Dimension C521 which is PCie1.0A compliant. Both are running Windows 10 Pro (1703 Creators Update Version). Both are fully functional and all other PCIe cards that have been installed in them have worked OK.The card has an external power supply connector to power USB devices (floppy drive style connector) and in both cases this was connected to the appropriate power cable on the PSU.The ASUS PC would not boot at all with the card installed (not even as far as POST). The Dell PC booted OK, the SATA3 ports worked perfectly and any USB2 devices plugged in worked OK. However, plug in any USB3 device and the PC hung instantly.I rejected the card and a new one was sent. With this one, the ASUS PC would sometimes boot and sometimes not but even when it did it was very slow getting to POST. Once the PC was booted though, the card worked OK. The SATA3 port was achieving 400MB/s with my Samsung EVO 850 SSD and the USB3 ports worked for all the devices I tried.On the Dell PC, the card mis-behaved as per the first one.I contacted the manufacturer of the card for tech support but had absolutely no response.I also was not impressed even if it had worked that at the price of this card, the box did not contain the drive LED cable or a floppy style power adaptor. Many PCs are not equipped with the latter so a Molex/SATA to floppy power adaptor cable would have been useful.My conclusion! Have I just been unlucky and have the only 2 PCs in the world that it won’t work on? I don’t think so. I think there is a generic design fault here and I feel that it relates to the power supply to the USB3 part of the card, I suspect to do with inadequate power supply to USB3 devices.Full marks to Amazon though who without quibble replaced the first card very quickly and gave a refund on the second equally quickly.

Wanted to put Win10 on my old Acer Verizon X270 (dual core Pentium at that point) so I installed Win10 on the existing onboard SATA 2 using an SSD. I then installed this card and it happily booted my SSD from this SATA3 card (with a few BIOS tweaks). USB 3 also works a treat. No drivers or OS were needed. I’ve subsequently upgraded the processor to a Core 2 Quad Q9650 and it’s like a new machine! Note that if you change processor you need to re-enter your Windows product key for it to take effect! Note also that X1 cards can’t support SATA 3 speeds. Don’t be fooled into buying one of them. This card is an PCI X4 card and it does the trick. I had to put it into an X16 slot as the only other available slot was X1. If you need a graphics card in your X16 slot, and you only have X1 slot available, then forget it.

I installed this on an Asrock FM2A85X-ITX Windows Home Server 2011 (Server 2008 R2) system. The buit in NEC chipset for USB 3 built into that mobo does not work with 2008 R2.This Syba card however worked, I used the driver from etron.com website. I tested with a USB3 flash drive and an IcyBox USB3 caddy with a WD Blue 750GB drive.I ran some tests and the results are good enough for my use, it is definately better than USB2.Test 1Using Syba USB3 (picture 1): 128GB SanDisk Thumbdrive, 110MB/s read and 28MB/s writeUsing Surface Book USB3 (picture 2): 128GB SanDisk Thumbdrive, 125MB/s read and 40MB/s writeTest 2Using Syba USB3 (picture 3): 750GB WD Blue, 74MB/s read and 73MB/s writeUsing Surface Book USB3 (picture 4): 750GB WD Blue, 74MB/s read and 73MB/s writeSo it appears the WD Blue HDD was read at the same speed on both systems. But it appears the Sandisk Thumbdrive was a bit slower on the Syba. It still is faster then USB2.I did not test the SATA ports but they appeared correctly in device manager and used built in Windows drivers. I updated the driver from drivers-download.com to use ASMedia ASM1061.I recomend this card, especially if you want Server 2008 R2 compatibility.

I have this installed on a high end but somewhat old Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard using a spare PCIE x 16 slot. Now 2 months on the card is still working perfectly with no noticeable difference in speed between the motherboard USB 3 and SATA 3 connections. On installation I did notice that an internal hard drive connected to the card’s SATA 3 slot was not recognised by bios and was therefore non-bootable; however, bios recognised the disk when I changed from IDE to AHCI. Definitely worth considering.