With 3 USB 2.0 ports and 2 FireWire ports, you get a bandwidth up to 40 times greater than USB 1.1. It’s the ideal interface for transferring extremely large files from USB 2.0 and FireWire peripherals at ultrafast speeds.
Maximizing the capabilities of the latest real time video cameras, scanners, and portable drives, the FireWire/USB 2.0 PCI Card gets you geared up for a whole new class of USB devices.
Advantages- Adds three USB 2.0 ports to your computer
- Gives ultrafast 480Mbps data transfer speeds with USB
- Compatible with all low speed and full speed USB (no adapters required)
- OHCI Compliant
- Adds two FireWire ports to your computer
- Gives ultrafast 400Mbps data transfer speeds with FireWire
- Offers Plug-and-Play installation ease
- Compatible with any video camera or portable drive with a FireWire port
1 Didn't work with my iPod
Funny, the other reviewer bought it specifically for their iPod, and had no trouble. I bought this card for the same reason, but it doesn't seem to work with my iPod. WinXP beeps and recognizes that a device was hooked up, but it never fully connects and iTunes just locks up on me. Oddly, I discovered that now my USB1.1 ports seem to be working just fine to download tunes to the iPod which they didn't seem to be working before. This is all probably just my computer or my iPod or lord knows what sort of evil combination of devices. The card does appear to work fine with my other USB1.1 devices plugged through a Belkin 4 port USB2.0 hub.
2 Plug and Play
I just bought my iPod for the windows and needed to upgrade my PC to USB 2.0. I went looking around for a USB 2.0/Firewire card and noticed that the ones that were listed on amazon have terrible reviews. Many of the issues were with configuration and many were just terrible products. I really needed to get the card quick because my iPod was just sitting there doing nothing, so I decided to thrown caution to the wind and try it out. I blocked out severals hours of my day thinking that it would be a nasty process. However, I plugged it in and it just worked! No configuration issues or anything. I'm writting this review as I'm downloading my music to my iPod. Still don't know about long term issues with it but I'm happy with the configuration!
