iogear GEU302 interface cards/adapter

USB 3.0 ExpressCard, 5 Gbps The new IOGEAR USB 3.0 ExpressCard allows you add 2 USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports to your existing Laptop or Notebook computer. USB SuperSpeed has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over Hi-Speed USB 2.0. The IOGEAR USB 3.0 ExpressCard is backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 standards and will fit into any available ExpressCard slot.
Some examples of USB 2.0 Hi-Speed vs. USB 3.0 SuperSpeed are:

Transferring a 25GB HD movie:
Using USB 2.0 it would take13.9 minutes to download, with USB 3.0 only 70 seconds

Transferring 16GB from a flash drive:
Using USB 2.0 it would take 8.9 minutes, with USB 3.0 only 53 seconds

Backing up 1TB of data:
Using USB 2.0 it would take 9.3 hours, using the new USB 3.0 only 47 minutes

Features

- Compliant with USB 3.0 revision 1.0 spec
- Fully compliant with ExpressCard 1.0 spec
- ExpressCard 34 form factor
- Supports transfer data rate of Low-Speed (1.5Mbps), Full-Speed (12Mbps), Hi-Speed (480Mbps), and SuperSpeed (5Gbps)
- Hot-swapping feature allows to connect/disconnect devices without powering down the system
- 2 downstream ports for all USBdevices
- Backward compatible to USB 2.0 and USB1.1 devices