Express Card Expresscard 54 slot to USB 3.0 x 2 Port Adapter up to 5Gbps Compatible USB 1.1 / 2.0 Windows XP/Vista/7

This card is cheap, fast and small - it does what it says on the box... if you can be bothered spending more than 1 second to get it working.

I have a pretty constant 65-70 MB/s copying speed from a slow internal HDD to an external USB 3.0 WD My Book Essential 2TB External Hard Drive (which is a powered drive - so I don't need to use the included card-USB power cable). This is a little bit faster than two other expensive cards I have used.

It can be pretty fiddly to remove from the computer (I have to carefully use a pair of pliars), but that's mostly because it's built to be flush with the computer... so when you push your computers 'eject' button, there's only a few millimeters sticking out to actually grab on to. This isn't really the fault of the card - you bought it to be small and flush so it doesn't stick out, didn't you!

The chip is a NEC chip which is a part of/owned/whatever by Renesas.

1) Don't bother with the included drivers.
2) Search for "station drivers RENESAS NEC USB3 driver" in google, the first site returned should be fore the 'station drivers' NEC drivers page and then click the "Renesas/Nec USB 3.0" chip image on the left side of the page ... and download the latest driver at the top of the next page (NEC mainly do OEM stuff, so you can't actually get any official drivers from NEC it seems - the 'station drivers' site seems safe from all the checking I did on forums, and I can confirm that the driver I downloaded was safe).
3) Install the drivers.
4) Stick the card in and it should recognise it and load the drivers.
5) If your external hard drive is NOT powered, plug one end of the included power cable into the card, and the other end into one of your computer's spare USB drives (the card will get the power from the other USB drive and pass it through to your hard drive). If your external hard drive IS powered, you don't need to use the power cable.
6) Plug your USB 3.0 hard drive in.
7) Copy and be happy.

Hope that helps someone!

Installed on Windows 7 64Bit Pro.

Windows recognized and installed the correct drivers automatically, in about 30 seconds.
(Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller + Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Root Hub)
These are Windows certified drivers by the way.

Transfer speeds on a USB 3.0 8GB Flash Drive; Write 14Mbs/ Read 47Mbs average, which is equal to o better than my Asus motherboard on my PC.

It does fit very snug and would be hard to remove, if for some reason you needed to.

I did have the drivers already downloaded, but were not needed.

Very cheap and works perfectly.

If you are having problems installing, comment this review and I will give you a link to the driver relevant to your operating system, as I don't think hyperlinks are shown in the reviews.

Don't be put off by bad reviews, this is a great bargain.

I needed an expresscard usb3 for my laptop which is a lenovo x200 tablet pc. Primarily I wanted something that would be slim, I didn't really like how most of the other options looked, the ones which extened beyond the slot itself, plus the big head looked too easy to brake. Well, I found this option, at first I hesitated because it is a non brand product, but after seeing the pictures that essentially showed a lenovo x200 laptop with the card inserted in the expresscard slot, I decided to buy it (it doesn't cost that much anyway). All seems good at first, the package arrived, I opened it up, it contained the card, the cable (which you have to connect to provide enough power to the device) and a mini cd with the drivers. First problem, the x200 tablet does not have a disc drive, second problem, my other laptop has a slot insert drive, meaning I had to go to a friend to read the contents of the disc and copy them to a flash drive. Well this won't be a problem for most of those who buy this device. But the following problems should be considered by everyone:

1) The drivers disc is a manually made one, it contains dozens of different drivers that were randomly found on the internet and copied to the disc, some in zip files, others extraced, others in exe files and etc. a total mess... considering that the majority of the drivers wont work there, I found that only the nec drivers worked (but they were rather old ones, and it still said they are beta drivers...)

2) The card actually barely fits in the express card slot, it actually got stuck there and its almost permanently glued to my laptop now, by trying to get the thing out, I actually broke the little push button next to the expresscard slot, which you press to eject the card, but it is so firmly stuck there that the only way I was able to get the thing out without taking the laptop apart was to plug two usb connectors to the ports on the device that slightly press on them like you would with plyers or scissors and try to pull it out, it actually worked, but I'm guessing that after a few dozen of attempts to pull it out like that I might eventually brake one of the ports.
So, the size is really a problem, one way could be to maybe use some sandpaper or something like that to smoothen the device at the edges so it might come out more easily. OH, and one more thing, this might not neccesarily happen to your laptop, all expresscard slots are slightly different, by fractions of a milimeter.

3) It causes some extra heat in my laptop, well, the system and cpu temperature actually rose by 4-5 degrees (rises to 7-9 if I'm extensively using the usb 3 ports, copying contents from one usb 3 harddrive to another usb3 harddrive). I thought it might be the drivers, so I tried to install new ones that I found on the internet, nec 2.something.somethingagain and . some more number. It didn't really help my heat problem but it did give a little boost to my transfer speeds. I haven't checked how much does it effect battery llife, but I'm guessing I will be loosing 10 to 15 minutes. Reminder, I am leaving the device in my expresscard slot all the time, since its too much trouble tryint to get it out everytime.

Well, the good part is, that it actually works pretty well for a usb3 card, the speeds are nice, I'm getting 65-70MB/s transfer speeds from a usb3 buffalo 3,5 harddrive (with peaks of more sometimes). I'm guessing my internal laptop hard drive is the bottleneck here. Transfer speeds from one usb3 3,5 hdd to a 2,5 usb3 hdd are around 30MB/s for a batch of 12000 olympus raw photo files, which are 10-11MB each. The fact that it is slim also is nice even though some size issues are present.

The extra cable is actually rather long so I tied it together to make it less annoying but I see why it has to be so long, for some large laptops might actually not have a usb port anywhere close to the expresscard slot.

I'm giving it 3 stars overall (objectively), because the issues I presented may not be present on other laptops. If I were to rate the device from my totally subjective point of view, it would get 1.5 stars. A broken expresscard eject button will not fix itself for free you know :/

PS. Sorry for my bad english in some places.