USB 3 power cable
I just bought an "Inland" USB3 PCI Express card and installed it. For USB3 speeds, I believe it needs a 4 pin white power connector which is the same as a floppy power connector and I don't have one in my HP6200 Pro. One of my other PCS has one attached to a SATA connector and I could clip it and splice the 4 wires together onto one of the HP's SATA connector but it isn't my favorite task on a new PC. The card defaults to USB2 speeds but I already have 10 USB2 ports and would like the super speed for backups onto a USB3 ext. HD. Are there such adapters on the market, CABLES.com has hundreds of pages with very small pictures. The 2TBt Seagate EXT HD is AC Powered and I also wondered if it might already reach Super Speed. It doesn't seem so. BTW, Win8 found and supplied the drivers for the card, but then I installed the supplied mini CD USB3 drivers with no change. A techie in Micro Center said that w/o the separate 4 pin power connector, the card and ports will just function as USB2. Any thought?
I just bought an "Inland" USB3 PCI Express card and installed it. For USB3 speeds, I believe it needs a 4 pin white power connector which is the same as a floppy power connector and I don't have one in my HP6200 Pro. One of my other PCS has one attached to a SATA connector and I could clip it and splice the 4 wires together onto one of the HP's SATA connector but it isn't my favorite task on a new PC. The card defaults to USB2 speeds but I already have 10 USB2 ports and would like the super speed for backups onto a USB3 ext. HD. Are there such adapters on the market, CABLES.com has hundreds of pages with very small pictures. The 2TBt Seagate EXT HD is AC Powered and I also wondered if it might already reach Super Speed. It doesn't seem so. BTW, Win8 found and supplied the drivers for the card, but then I installed the supplied mini CD USB3 drivers with no change. A techie in Micro Center said that w/o the separate 4 pin power connector, the card and ports will just function as USB2. Any thought?
