Darren and others: For people who are in that situation, I recommend an inexpensive solution of how to get USB-3 ports. I did this for my desktop and for my laptop.
Desktop: I bought this PCI adapter card: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/696114-REG/Transcend_TS_PDU3_2_Port_USB_3_0_PCI.html It seems to work fine. Note that you need to have a spare short (PCI x1) PCI slot available. Laptop: if your laptop has an express card slot, you can buy a very inexpensive adapter for USB 3.0. Depending on the width of your slot, you want to buy a 30-mm or 54-mm card. I bought this one for my laptop (Windows 7): http://www.amazon.com/BestDealUSA-2-Port-ExpressCard-Express-Adapter/dp/B0090U8VES/ You can see reviews for that product on this page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046XUMDW/ even though the seller changed the name of the product recently - I believe the reviews are about "BestDealUSA" brand. - I bought that from this page in mid-2012. It works reasonably well, but once in a while is not recongnized as a USB-3 device. It is not often, maybe once in two months or maybe even less frequently. All you need is too pull it out and the push it back again 20 seconds later. Note, while 54-mm slot can accept both 30mm and 54mm cards, 54mm card is more steady in it. Also note, that if you need to connect USB-3 devices that don't have a separate power supply then you USB 3.0 adapter in the laptop should have an additional cable that plugs in into the regular USB adapter,- to provide the power (it is not sufficient/available from the express card port). This cable is usually included with these adapters (don't disregard it!) HTH, Igor Wed Nov 20 10:20:47 EST 2013 Darren Addy wrote: For those reading this and wanting a similar upgrade, it should be noted that your desktop or laptop has to have a USB 3 port in order to make full use of a USB 3 device. (You can't just plug a USB 3 device into a USB 2 port and get a performance increase). I realize that this is a "duh" for most of us, but just adding it for those who may not be quite the technical geniuses that the rest of us are. :D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
