Product Description

Your MacBook Pro or PC notebook computer has USB 2.0 ports, and they've served you well. Talk about compatibility-keyboards, mice, printers, scanners, joysticks, digital cameras, flash drives-what couldn't you plug in? Talk about performance-well, that's where USB ports 2.0 are merely passable-they limit data transfer speeds to around 25-30 MB/s. For most peripherals, that's perfectly adequate, but when you connect an external drive and expect great performance, that bottleneck is a problem-video editing, backing up, and other data-intensive activities suffer as a result. Enter Sonnet's USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter, the bottleneck breaker! This Sonnet host controller is based on the new USB 3.0 standard that offers up to 10x the performance of the decade-old USB 2.0 interface. A single hard drive with a USB 3.0 interface is capable of transferring data at up to 125 MB/s, while SSDs (solid state drives) are capable of even faster transfers-insert Sonnet's USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter into your notebook computer's ExpressCard slot to exploit the full performance potential of these fast drives(1).Sonnet's USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 works in ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54 slots. Each of this card's ports supports bus-powered peripherals (devices that work without a separate power supply, including some external drives and scanners). Not only is this card backward-compatible with your USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 peripherals, it also supports hot-swappable device connection. Insert Sonnet's USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 adapter into your MacBook Pro or PC notebook to experience the super speed of USB 3.0 connectivity firsthand.