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The FebSmart FS-A3C2-Pro is a high-performance PCIE USB 3.1 GEN2 expansion card featuring 2 USB-C and 3 USB-A ports, each capable of 10Gbps data transfer speeds. It incorporates self-powered technology eliminating the need for additional PSU cables, supports multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS, and Linux, and includes a built-in heat sink to maintain optimal thermal conditions for sustained peak performance.
Brand | FebSmart |
Series | PCIE X4 Interface to 3X USB-A and 2X USB-C 10Gbps Ports Expansion Card |
Item model number | FS-A3C2-Pro |
Operating System | Windows 11, 10, 8.x, 7 (32/64), Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019, 2022.Linux and MAC OS. |
Item Weight | 4.2 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 4.72 x 3.2 x 0.71 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4.72 x 3.2 x 0.71 inches |
Color | Matte Red |
Voltage | 5 Volts |
Manufacturer | FebSmart Co,.Ltd |
ASIN | B08F3D1CPS |
Date First Available | August 1, 2020 |
D**S
Fantastic USB expansion card for the price
The media could not be loaded. I am moving on from my old Z87 Asus Sabertooth i7 4770K rig. It has served me well since I built it in 2014. I am putting it storage and will use it later for a plex sever. It’s a great board, but it’s old. One of the issues for me is the board only has 4 USB 3.0 ports on the rear panel and 2 mid board that are for the case front. No USB 3.2. Back in March of this year i took care of that by buying this expansion card. It went into an unused pcie x16 slot. I’m running windows 10 64 bit pro and my machine picked it up after I booted back up. All the ports work just fine. To test the speed I used a Samsung Bar Plus 256 GB USB 3.1 flash drive formatted to exfat. I ran winsat disk -drive from CMD. As you can see in my screen shots, the speeds are impressive. 4 of the ports hit speeds from 167 to 163 mb/s on the disk sequencial 64.0 read and around 135 on the disk sequenctial 64.0 write. The 5th port hit 159 read and 135 write. I used the same flash drive on one of the boards rear 3.0 port. That speed was 151 on the rear and 105 on the write. You can see the difference in speeds from 3.0 and 3.2.Don’t hesitate on picking up this card if you need more high speed ports and you have an appropriate available pcie slot.
G**G
Solid PCI express adapter card.
Card has worked flawlessly for several months now. Has no trouble operating a USB DVD burner over a 10ft cable, a 14TB Seagate external hard drive, a 10 port USB (self-powered) expansion hub (also connected via a 10ft cable), and a multi-function card reader.
M**.
NOT USB 3.2, and NOT PCIe x4
I got this card for my backup server -- an HP DL140 G3 -- which had no USB3 ports. I have a ZFS array hooked up to this machine using several USB drives, so there would definitely be a lot of throughput to these drives. This machine has PCIe, but it's only PCIe v1.0 -- so it was important to get a card that used more PCIe lanes to make up for the older/slower PCIe bus. I went with this card specifically because both the pictures and the description indicated that it was a PCIe x4 card, and it seemed to be the cheapest PCIe x4 card out there -- x8 and x16 cards do exist, but they all seem to be much more expensive.Installation was relatively painless -- it's a Linux machine, and the LInux kernel recognized it right off the bat. It's been in the machine for almost a day now and no issues have cropped up. (Not even any warnings/device resets from the kernel!)However...immediately after installing the card, I ran a "sudo lspci -vv" on the machine to see how it identified itself (output at the bottom of this post). Two issues immediately stood out:- It identifies itself as a PCIe x2 card, not a PCIe x4- It identifies itself as a USB 3.1 host controller, not USB 3.2.The "USB 3.1 not USB 3.2" part isn't that big of a deal to me -- since I'm not even sure the drives I have hooked up even support USB 3.2. However, the "PCIe x2 not PCIe x4" part irks me -- as that basically means that I'll only get half of the bandwidth that I expected to out of this card. And, this seems to be consistent with one of the other reviewers who installed it into his Mac and got similar data out of the System Information app.For what it is, however, it seems to be working just fine -- I am seeing an improvement over my previous PCIe x1 card. I just wish it was it had actually been an x4 card.Below is the output from lspci (cropped to just show the info for this card). Notice the "LnkCap" line shows "Speed 8GT/s, Width x2" -- which means it's capable of PCIe v3.0 speeds, but only capable of using 2 PCIe lanes. The "LnkSta" line shows "Speed 2.5GT/s (downgraded), Width x2 (ok)", which means that it's using PCIe v1.0 speeds (since that's what my machine supports), and that it's actually using 2 PCIe lanes.10:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM2142 USB 3.1 Host Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI])Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM2142 USB 3.1 Host ControllerControl: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytesInterrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16Region 0: Memory at dfb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00002000PBA: BAR=0 offset=00002080Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+Capabilities: [80] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <2usExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq-RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytesDevSta: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq+ AuxPwr+ TransPend-LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x2, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimitedClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s (downgraded), Width x2 (ok)TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, NROPrPrP-, LTR+10BitTagComp-, 10BitTagReq-, OBFF Not Supported, ExtFmt-, EETLPPrefix-EmergencyPowerReduction Not Supported, EmergencyPowerReductionInit-FRS-AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS-DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF DisabledAtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn-LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-Compliance De-emphasis: -6dBLnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error ReportingUESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr-CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr+AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap+ ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap- ECRCChkEn-MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap-HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000Capabilities: [200 v1] Secondary PCI ExpressLnkCtl3: LnkEquIntrruptEn-, PerformEqu-LaneErrStat: 0Capabilities: [300 v1] Latency Tolerance ReportingMax snoop latency: 0nsMax no snoop latency: 0nsKernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
M**M
Not recognized by my 16x PCIe slot!
My motherboard, Gigabyte B660M DS3H has only one 16x slot, and two 1x slots. Of course I had to use the 16x slot. But Windows 11 can't find it, there's just no device in Device Manager. I selected to view hidden devices, but no Unknown Device or Other Device is there. The motherboard just does not find it. A USB drive lights up briefly when plugged in, but then goes dark. With any powered USB port, the light should stay on or blink.I tried to install the drivers, by the way to get them or support leave out the WWW. in their website, and the driver says no ASSMedia device not found. Thanks guys, I was hoping to get this system done today so I can install it tomorrow.
J**.
works as advertised
I bought this on behalf of a client that had lost all their motherboard USB ports for some reason. Being a high end system, it didn't make sense to put in older USB ports like 3.0. I only tested it with mouse and keyboard, so can't speak to its rated speeds. But it got the job done nicely and relatively easily. The only caveat is that I was half expecting it to take up one of the short PCIe slots, but it requires bigger than those 1x ones. Yes, you can put this 4x card in a long 8-16x slot just fine. This client only had one spare PCIe slot to use, but of course, one is all you need. And this should save them from having to buy a much more expensive replacement motherboard. If I could have found such a newer protocol card with 4 type-A USB ports, I might have gone that route instead. As is, after plugging in mouse and keyboard, they would only have one type-A port to spare. But I guess they can plug a USB hub into that if they need more, or buy a type-C to type-A adapter.Windows 10 detected the card and set up drivers automatically - no disks or manual downloads needed.It may also be worth noting that their BIOS didn't listen to a mouse and keyboard plugged into this add-in card, meaning that if I needed to go into their BIOS settings to change anything, I had to use a PS/2 keyboard, and it was fortunate they had that port available.
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