Inateck PCIe to USB 3.0 7 Ports Expansion Card - 5 USB 3.0 Ports and 2 Rear USB 3.0 Ports Express Card Desktop with 15 Pin SATA Power Connector, Including Two Power Cables (KT5002)

I managed to get two of these cards installed on my ASUS Z-97 Pro motherboard. Both work well and now I have 10 external USB 3.0 ports and 4 internal USB 3.0 ports.I use the internal ports for things such as USB Bluetooth dongle, Logitech USB receiver (mouse, keyboard), a small hard drive mounted inside my PC case. The external ports work flawlessly and I've had no problems with them.If you have a motherboard similar to the ASUS Z-97 Pro and have a SATA drive plugged into the internal SATA Express port, then note that one of your PCIe slots will not function and you will not be able to use that PCIe slot as the SATA Express drive is taking up the data lane for that PCIe slot. This can be very frustrating if you aren't aware of this situation .To install one card it is straight forward and pretty much self explanatory. To install multiple cards you will need an open PCIe (and functioning) slot for each additional card and a power supply. I suggest a multi-SATA power cable. Before installing the second card, if you haven't already installed the first card do so and install the drivers and make sure it is working, then turn off the computer and slot in the second card and turn on the computer. You do not need to install the drivers again. The original drivers for the first card should recognize and configure the second card as well. You might receive a minor error while the computer is configuring the drivers for the second card. It shouldn't affect the functioning of the card.During the installation of the second card, once I turned on my computer, my computer automatically recognized the card and installed drivers for it automatically (which were the same drivers already installed and hence the error).Once you have the second card working, verify both cards are functioning properly.I don't think the drivers were really designed for multiple cards in mind, but they seem to work under Windows 7 64-bit no problem. As for Windows 10 I don't know.I deducted a star from my review because the drivers haven't been updated since 2014 and are likely out of date, especially for Windows 10.So, that is my experience with multi-card installation and my two cards are identical cards with identical chipsets. Using different cards with differing chipsets might yield differing results.I hope this helps anyone trying to get two or more cards working.---------------update---------------------------As of yesterday (1/27/17) after updating the drivers ( to 3.6.9.0 8/2/16), the external ports (all 5 ports on both cards) no longer work. The internal ports (2 on each card) still work fine, but no external ports work at all. Trying to diagnose the issue. I will update when and if I find a fix.--------------update -----------------------------After some tinkering with the cards (installing and uninstalling and restarting the computer a few dozen times) I was able to determine the cause of the problem. It appears that when I updated the drivers to version 3.6.9.0 8/2/16 that the old drivers were left behind and still active. I imagine some sort of conflict was being caused with the old drivers and new drivers trying to control the same cards at the same time. Anyhow, the solution I found was to user Driver Boost 4 to uninstall all the drivers (old and new) (while removing the drivers you will find about 7 per card and they all contain the name 'Frisco' in their description). Once all the drivers were removed I removed both cards from my PCI slots and started my computer absent of the cards. Then registry cleaned my registry to get rid of any lingering registry entries. I then shut down the computer, and installed only one card then turned on the computer. Once the desktop appeared the card was present but no drivers could be found for it. That was a positive sign. So I installed the newest drivers again (3.6.9.0). I removed all the USB cables from the external ports and reconnected them one by one and they came back to life and all my devices worked.For the second card, I then shut down the computer and installed the second card (connecting power and placing in a seperate PCI slot). Then I restarted the computer. Once the desktop came up the computer automatically installed the drivers for the second card as it recognized that it uses the identical drivers to the first card. I connected my USB cables to the second card and everything worked as expected.So, the cards are very good, however, for some reason the new drivers did not uninstall the old drivers properly and that is what caused my problems.

I edit a lot of videos so having file transfer speed over 100MB/sec is important to me. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner but I finally woke up and look to purchase a USB 3.0 card to connect my many hard drives. This Inateck card appeared on Amazon Lightning Deal at a good price and with good reviews. I hesitated a little since I have never heard of this brand. But eventually I clicked "submit" and order it. I am happy to say that this is a great USB 3.0 card. I added 7 USB 3.0 ports to my computer without much effort. It took a mere 10 minutes. I had to use the included SATA power connector to power the Inateck card. Otherwise, devices were not detected or even spin up. I downloaded the driver off the website, and didn't even bother with opening the CD that came with the package.<soap box>I really hate it that as companies get bigger that they feel the need to protect their bottom line, and do stupid things like prevent someone from inserting a URL in their review (that is not an Amazon product link). God forbid someone links to a competitor website. I was trying to link you, the shoppers, to the device driver file on the manufacturer's website but the A-hole company that also starts with an A (and whose CEO is a Bozo for allowing this bad policy) decided to remove the URL after I post it. So now I am resorting to cryptic languages and more wasted time to edit it back in.</soap box>The drivers are here:inateck dot com \ pci-e-to-usb-3-0-cards \ usb-3-0-pci-express-card-works-with-extra-power-cable \ inateck-ktu3fr-5o2u-usb-3-0-pci-express-card.htmlI plugged in all my USB 3.0 drives and they all worked fine. One issue I did encounter was on Windows 7. Two of my drives would collide and would only work if the other is not plugged in. If both are plugged in, one one is visible. This was caused by a duplicate drive ID in the boot block (not the same as drive letter). I googled around and found that I had to go into Windows Disk Administrator and look for the "offline" drive and right click on the "offline" area and select "online". That caused Windows to create a new disk ID for the offline drive and all is good. This problem never appear to me in the past because I had only two USB 3.0 ports, so I never had these two drives connected at the same time. It is really a Windows issue, not Inateck. Overall a great USB 3.0 card and highly recommended.One more thing. Before trying this card, I tried a generic 7 port USB 3.0 hub by "7 Ports" that I bought at an auction site. That hub has an interesting feature in that each USB port can be turned off with a switch. That hub worked fine, but when I tried plugging in the power adapter to the hub so that I could get extra power to run external 2.5" drives, the computer wouldn't even boot. Apparently the power adapter is wired such that it is shorting out the computer, causing the computer to not boot. So just a word of caution if you are considering going the hub route. The compatibility testing is still not quite there yet in the hub world. Go with this instead. You will be much happier.Update: 9 months later, it is still working fine. I have 5 USB drives connected permanently to these ports and they all work fine, giving me great speed without having to open up the computer and connect to the SATA port directly. I get 90MB/S writes with the WD drives I use, so that is plenty fast for my video editing needs. Windows hibernation works great, all drives are found after coming back from hibernation. My WD drives spin down on their own after hibernation.