QVS UC2-104 USB 2.0 High-Speed PCI Host Adaptor offers high performance functionality by allowing multiple peripheral devices to share the 40-times increased bandwidth. Peripheral devices requiring high-speed transmission rates, such as external storage devices, scanners, DVD drives, CD-RW drives, MO (Magneto-Optical) drives, and digital cameras/camcorders, used to require the use of the more expensive FireWire (IEEE 1394), can NOW be supported with satisfaction with this USB 2.0-compliant host adaptor at huge cost savings. Enables a PC to connect devices requiring low as well as high speed transmission such as keyboards, mouse devices, printers; and external storage devices, scanners, and digital cameras/camcorders through hot-plug capability