Easily add additional USB 3.0 Ports, and SATA Ports to the front of your computer with the 3.5" Front Panel Hub.
All that is needed for the installation of this front panel hub is an internal USB 3.0 connection from your computer. You can get this connection from a PCI Express USB 3.0 Card like the SW-29277.
USB 3.0 - No More Bottleneck
USB 3.0 features "superspeed" mode, allowing up to 5 Gbit/s transfer rates. This is ten times faster than the previous maximum speed of USB 2.0 (480 mbps). This means you can take full advantage of the full transfer speeds of the interface your hard drive uses -- 3 Gb/s for SATA and much less for IDE -- so USB is no longer the bottleneck. This means that with USB 3.0, it is essentially like having the hard drive installed inside your computer hooked directly to the motherboard.
For more information check out our article about USB 3.0 .
