Hi, your thoughts on USB 3.0 would be muchly appreciated.

My aunty needs a backup hd, (for her Asrock AliveNF7G-Full HD rev.3.0 based
PC), so to speed things up I thought I'd bung her in a PCIe x1 card with USB
3.0 ports on it, and treat her to a USB 3.0 ext. hd.

After a bit of a rummage on the web, I spotted someone saying that the
Seagate USB 3.0 hd wouldn't work for him, on his USB 3.0 ports - worked okay
on his USB 2.0 ports though !
....and someone else said that it would be nice if Windows recognized the
card instead of having to install the 3rd party drivers that came on a CD
with it ! I'd already gathered that USB 3.0 can be a bit of a 'hit or miss'
affair.

also, after looking at USB 3.0 PCIe x1 cards on ebuyer.com, they all seem to
have a four pin molex power connector on them !!!
....and somewhere I spotted that one card supplied 5w/900ma on each of it's
two USB ports !
....so it appears that these cards can't suck enough current out of the
motherboard PCIe x1 slot ???

....so who in here has bunged in a PCIe x1 USB 3.0 card, and did you have to
connect a molex to it, and which external hard disk case worked for you ?

:-)

regards, Richard