7-Ports Superspeed 5Gbps USB 3.0 PCIE Expansion Card, 5-Ports USB-A and an 19Pin USB 3.0 Header, Built in FebSmart Self-Powered Technology, No Need Additional Power Supply (FS-U7S-Pro)

It works surprisingly well out of the box, with no setup required (on my system). Haven't been able to test charging, but it has good USB 3.0-ish speed. If you have unused PCIe x1 slots and have a lack of USB ports, this could be the thing for you.As a note, for those confused by the "7-port" claim, the additional 2 most likely refer to the internal USB 3.0 header, which normally connects to 2 ports on a case or another hub.And as a heads up, if your PSU is at the bottom of the case and you use an ATX or similar form factor, this will sit right above the PSU's fan, which may interfere with airflow. This isn't a dig at this product in particular, as any PCIe card in the bottom-most slot would have this issue.

I have a motherboard which the usb 3.0 port does not work so well with Linux. I purchased this card and put it into PC and turned off on motherboard use 3.0. works like a charm. Nothing to config - just works. Kernels 5.15 and 5.19. I have one of those case panels that allow you to get usb 3.0 on front of case. that panel just has cable to go to usb 3.0 header. I hooked that cable into this card - works well. Have tested that front panel ( which means the usb 3.0 header ) and the back connectors. all works well. Ading this detail for Linux folsks sometimes Linux folks do not know what to buy. Very happy.

I got this to add USB devices to my Home Assistant virtual machine running under KVM on a Debian host running Linux kernel 5.10.0. Absolutely no issues. The host OS recognized the device after a reboot. HAOS also recognized the card and attached devices as soon as it was passed through from the host.Before this, I was passing the USB devices through to the VM, but the Bluetooth adapter frequently disconnected. This is no longer a problem after passing the whole PCIE USB card through to the VM.

Easily installed and Windows 10 picked it up immediately. The two ports that can be used in the front of the computer was not compatible with my hardware so I was unable to connect the front ports. Therefore only using 5 of the 7 available ports.

October 9, 2021. This review is for the FebSmart brand, USB 3.0 Expansion Card and 20 Pin Header. Not a good product. The plug in of the product was relatively easy; however, after installed, the desktop PC would NOT POWER ON. Computer would NOT turn on, and no boot process. Once card was taken out of the motherboard, desktop computer would power on. It appears that the card itself should have a SATA power line connector to power supply the card addition. Sent two e-mails to FebSmart Customer Support e-mail address and received no reply. I lost money on this purchase and still need to upgrade my system with a multi port USB 3.0 Expansion Card. Still need the card, then I can finish the install. This was a setback that I wish had been successful, but was not. This review is being typed from the same computer that was repaired. 1 4 4

I haven't had any issues with this USB card. I installed it into an unRAID server I built, and then pass it through to a virtual machine that I run on my server. This way, I get dedicated USB connectivity on my virtual machine, making it easy to connect Bluetooth peripherals (I also bought a Bluetooth USB receiver) or even just connect USB peripherals directly to the VM. It really comes in handy sometimes!

It was easy to install. My motherboard is a GA-970A-D3P and there are issues with Linux recognizing the USB ports. In my case the USB 3.0 ports worked but all 7 of the USB 2.0 ports were dead plus the USB 2.0 headers. This board worked great! I later found that if I added two additional parameters to the Grub boot line, my existing ports would work.

This FebSmart 7-Ports Superspeed 5Gbps USB 3.0 PCIE Expansion Card is easy to install and was properly recognized by Windows 10 as soon as I booted up. I also didn't encounter any conflict between my video card because my video card wasn't installed in the top slot which seems to be what causes that problem. So far so good.Unfortunately, I've had some stability issues with this USB Card which is something else that some purchasers have complained about. Four times that I've noticed in the first week the USB connection crashed during a file transfer, all of the external drives connected to this card disappeared, and then all of the drives came back and I needed to start the file transfer over. This is not an issue of the card itself being overtaxed because every time it happened was with a transfer from my C drive to a single external USB Drive and it's not an issue with a bad drive because it happened with different external drives that were both SSD and HDD type drives. While 3 of the 4 times drives that disappeared after the card crashed reappeared on their own after a few seconds one time that didn't happen and I needed to reboot my computer for the card to recognize anything connected to it again--and I couldn't reboot without disconnecting everything connected to this card.I'm not a novice when it comes to installing computer peripherals on Windows and I'm a user going back to version 3.1 so I have a lot of experience with this kind of thing. The card shows up correctly in Windows Device Manager and the plug-and-play driver assigned to the card has a surprisingly recent build date (I mean this month recent which is unusual). As part of my troubleshooting, I tried the driver from the included CD which may have made things worse so I switched back to Microsoft's driver.I also tried moving this card to a different slot which didn't help and then swapped positions with the other USB card that was already installed which also didn't work. I also used Microsoft's built-in System File Checker utility to rule out corrupt Windows files and did a deep scan with Malwarebytes to rule out malware.There are two reasons that I am reluctantly giving this USB card three stars instead of one even though there's no way I can recommend it. The first is that I am using a very powerful but also very old HP Server Tower so my hardware is probably substantially different than the vast majority of people who install this card. The second is that the large number of positive reviews suggests that this USB card may work better on other systems.--but for my part, I'm shopping for another card.