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 bought one of these to use in my refurbished home server (Dell R720, Ubuntu Linux Server 22.04 LTS built as a KVM host with 9 VMs) which is old and did not have USB 3.0 ports built into it. I installed this card in the PCIe slot in the server, but could only get USB 2.0 devices (jump drive) to work with Linux at first. Then I upgraded the kernel to 6.0.6-1, rebooted and was able to see my USB 3.0 drives in the host OS. A bit more configuration later, and the USB 3.0 drive is now mounted within a VM. I would buy this card again.

Easy install with no issues apparently with the manufacturing of the board. However, it has a tendency to not detect devices unless I repeatedly restart, or unplug/plug said device. Different devices, different cables. All with the same issue. Additionally the signal delivery through it is worse than a standard 2.0. I have two buttkicker amps. when plugged into the standard usb2.0 port on my pc I have no issues, when plugged into this, suddenly I can't get the amp to receive a solid signal. Tried to plug my Camera into it, and it won't detect it unless I unplug/plug it in. Once it does detect it, the image flickers contstantly. Plug the camera into any other port, and no issues at all.

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.

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.

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.

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!