USB 2.0 PCI CARD $9.95 AR (BACK IN STOCK!)

[dAv]

At Buy.com $19.95 with $10.00 off Iogear rebate. Here
It's a 2 port card but the price is right. How many 2.0 devices will you use?

edit:
Back in stock! Price has been reduced to $19.63 with free shipping.
Combined with a USB 2.0 Flash card reader here
for $48.76 I just downloaded 220 Meg of pictures from a Microtech 256 card in 50 seconds! :Q
It would have taken an hour with USB 1.1

 

[mrbentley]

Sounds good, thanks

 

[HFC]

Anybody knows what chipset does it use, NEC, VIA, etc?

 

[dAv]

HFC
I've installed it, the drivers are NEC.

 

[Mercenary]

ohhh nice may have to grab one.

 

[Coraanu]

Urrrrrrrrgh, must convince myself I do not need a USB 2.0 card! =]

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Coraanu
Urrrrrrrrgh, must convince myself I do not need a USB 2.0 card! =]

I love mine.. took a 16x10x40 PacDigital USB 2.0 changed out the 16x(Lite-on) for a 32x(Lite-on) ..burn speed stays same in or out of enclosure..very sweet..oh..in a USB 1.0 system ..burn speed was like 15 minutes instead of 4

 

[Xterraguy]

They also have the 5-port card for $25.55 after $10 rebate
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And a 4-port powered USB 2.0 hub for $39.46 after $10 rebate
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Rebate offers expire 6/30!

Brent

 

[jandaman]

Ordered, thanks for the info

 

[CoolMint]

doh! only the 5 port has an internal port.. wanted a cheap one that could front mount

 

[Gtroop]

Before I spend more money that belongs to the school loan company....
when connecting a usb 2 device through a hub to a usb 2 controller. Does the hub need to be a new usb 2 hub? Or will the old usb hubs relay at full speed?

 

[rockyct]

Free shipping also. This is a great deal.

 

[h0vic]

Originally posted by: Gtroop
Before I spend more money that belongs to the school loan company....
when connecting a usb 2 device through a hub to a usb 2 controller. Does the hub need to be a new usb 2 hub? Or will the old usb hubs relay at full speed?

You need a USB 2.0 hub to operate at 480Mbps when connected to a USB 2.0 controller. Think of it as a 10BaseT hub connected to a 10/100 NIC.

 

[HFC]

Thanks. Just ordered one. As stated in another message free ground shipping.

 

[cruzer]

I got the 2.0 card under the Maxtor brand (with NEC chip) a few weeks ago. It caused IRQ conflicts in some PCI slots causing ocasional lockups during data transfers. Make sure to research IRQ sharing on your particular motherboard.

 

[Shagger]

Aren't you still constrained by the PCI bus speed? Isn't that 33Mb/s or something? Whats the limit on USB 2.0?

 

[popeye44]

Pci bus unless I am mistaken is 133 megabytes per second 480 is pertaining to MegaBIT's

 

[breity]

out of stock.

 

[dAv]

This card rocks. Combined with the IOGEAR Memory Bank compact flash reader Buy.com I just transfered 9 Meg of photos in 1.88 sec!
By the way, I had major hassles installing the Memory Bank reader, had to email tech support to get the proper drivers.
Three calls to tech failed to get the right answer. Now with the right drivers, wow!

 

[TypeE]

Originally posted by: popeye44
Pci bus unless I am mistaken is 133 megabytes per second 480 is pertaining to MegaBIT's

PCI bus is 133Megabyte since it operates at 33Mhz in a 32bit(4byte) system

USB2.0 operates at 480Mbit/s that's 60Mbyte/s

 

[cremefilled]

Shagger, you're thinking of standard IDE, which is 33 MBps (not 33 Mbps). USB 2.0 comes close to saturating the PCI bus at full data transfer speeds (although it does have some overhead--so a USB hard drive will never quite as fast as the same drive placed directly on a high speed IDE channel).

 

[Shagger]

Shagger, you're thinking of standard IDE, which is 33 MBps (not 33 Mbps). USB 2.0 comes close to saturating the PCI bus at full data transfer speeds (although it does have some overhead--so a USB hard drive will never quite as fast as the same drive placed directly on a high speed IDE channel).

Yeah I had heard that USB2.0 was fast but never HOW fast. What I get confused on is the notation of Megabytes / sec and Megabits / sec.

Is it MB/s or Mb/s which is which?

 

[FlasHBurN]

No longer shows free shipping on this item, ends up being a little over $15 shipped after rebate.

 

[icer]

umm, skip it

 

[dwirsz]

There is no free shipping because free shipping is only available with items that are "in stock". And this is shipping in 3-5 days not "in stock".