USB3.0 Cardbus Express Card for Laptop

Pros: Adds rather fast USB3 to most laptops with a PCMCIA style cardbus slot, my laptop had USB2, this slotted straight in

Cons: doesn't seem to provide enough power to spin up a 2.5" external style drive, I need to route through an external USB3 hub. My 3.5" external desktop style drive works well though. Summary, you can't use the USB3 port for 2.5" portable hard drives.

Other: Cheap way to add USB3 to most laptops

Pros: Affordable way to boost add USB 3.0 Pretty fast

Cons: It could be my laptop - seems to unseat easily from the slot It runs a bit hot

Other: The CD came with a bunch of drivers, make sure you use the right one! It is not the NEC one. It installs and works on Windows 7 without any issues. Got noticeably faster read speeds 20 MB/s, but write speeds to a Class10 SD card was about 1.5 MB/s. I transferred a 300 MB video from the card and it took over six minutes on USB 2.0, but with this card it took less than one minute! A 1 GB file took close to three minutes.