StarTech.com 3 Port PCI High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter Card (PCI220USB)

by StarTech

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 5.5 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006W2RK
• Item model number: PCI220USB
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,812 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 3, 2002

Product Description

This 2 Port PCI USB 2. 0 Adapter Card adds three USB 2. 0 connections (2 external and 1 internal) to a computer, through simple installation in an available PCI slot. The PCI USB card offers a cost-effective solution for adding USB peripheral connectivity without having to upgrade the computer motherboard, supporting USB 2. 0 devices with full high-speed USB data transfer rates of up to 480Mbps. Plus, the PCI USB card is suitable for connecting older USB devices, based on backward compatibility with USB 1. 1 devices. The PCI-based USB card can be connected to the computer in seconds, through simple WHQL-certified plug-and-play installation, and supports device hot-swapping, allowing you to connect/disconnect USB peripherals without having to power down the computer or reboot. This high quality USB adapter card is backed by StarTech. com's lifetime warranty and free lifetime technical support.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good price, pretty easy and fast to install, February 3, 2003

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"wildhare927" (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: StarTech.com 3 Port PCI High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter Card (PCI220USB) (Personal Computers)

This 2-port USB 2.0 card was a great price--I thought about getting a D-Link instead, but even after rebates on the D-Links, the Startech was less expensive. The card installed very easily and works perfectly well. My only complaint was that the manual could have had a line or two more of detail in the driver installation section. Even with Win XP, you must install a driver from CD, which I thought was a little odd. Regardless, it took under 30 minutes to install and forget about it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Says Mac Compatabile, but not at Usb 2.0, just Usb 1.1, July 23, 2007

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Grant Thienemann (Southern Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: StarTech.com 3 Port PCI High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter Card (PCI220USB) (Personal Computers)

I bought this seeing that StarTech said this pci Usb 2.0 card would also work on my Mac. I got the card, installed it into my computer and booted my computer. The driver cd they provided included a ton of drivers, however they were not organized well at all.

I finally found about 12 Mac drivers and since none of them said what exactly what they were, I proceeded to install all of them, I would usely just get to the screen that tells me what the driver was for and then quit if it was not the Usb. Finally discovered there were 3 Usb drivers for the mac.

Anyway, after installing the correct driver, I rebooted my mac and proceed to plug in my Usb 2 device, the Elgato Turbo.264 - Video H.264 (MP4) Encoder Hardware 10020500, and it was not compatabile, the software could not see that I plugged in the Usb hardware encoder into my Mac.

After some investigating in System Profiler, the card was only running at Usb 1.1. That is when I went to StarTech's website and come to find out, yes the card is Mac Compatabile, but only at Usb 1.1. This card might work great for windows computers, however I do not recommend this card if you are looking to add Usb 2.0 for your Macintosh. I would recommend the Sonnet Allegro USB2 Serial Network Adapter. The Sonnet card is a true plug and play card for Macs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Value for price, February 11, 2006

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LynnE216 (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: StarTech.com 3 Port PCI High Speed USB 2.0 Adapter Card (PCI220USB) (Personal Computers)

I ordered two of these, one for my XP computer at work, and one for my ME computer at home. They're both working perfectly now, but the installation didn't go anything like the User's Manual suggested it would.

The physical installation is no problem at all for anyone who can take the cover off the computer and recognizes a PCI slot. Software's a different story. If you don't panic easily and are fairly familiar with installing new hardware, this should go pretty well, but if you're a total computer novice, be prepared for some scary moments.

Before I could use the new ports, my ME machine demanded three files it couldn't find (usbntmap.sys, usbstor.sys, and usbmphlp.pdr). I'm not sure if they should have been provided on the software disc for the USB ports, or whether this was a problem of the DVD writer I was plugging into the port, but my Googling for an answer (and successfully finding and downloading copies of those missing files) suggested that they should have been provided by the USB port maker. They're readily available on the internet, so it wasn't a real problem, but the installation took about two hours and was much more nervous than I'd like.

Still, the price is very right, and I now have working USB-2 ports on both home and office systems. If you're comfortable with your computer, I would't hesitate to recommend this product.