Is there anyway to get USB 3.0 on a 17" 2011 MBP? I seen a serial card with 2 USB 3.0 ports from Sonnet. Will this work? My computer does have a Thunderbolt port.
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Is there anyway to get USB 3.0 on a 17" 2011 MBP? I seen a serial card with 2 USB 3.0 ports from Sonnet. Will this work? My computer does have a Thunderbolt port.
See aboveHi All,
I too would lobe to find a reasonable solution to this - most reviews of the various Expresscard USB 3.0 adapters (e.g. Amazon etc) have not been very encouraging - would really like to find one that is reasonable priced & fully works with OSX with issues!!
Bazzy!
I actually got this to work 4 days ago on my Late '08 MBP (15")
Basically, I got this card (Brand GMYLE) on Amazon for $10 total (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846)
Obviously it probably wouldn't work on mac... but i tried. Once I got the card I tried installing some drivers (caldigit, LaCie, etc), and none worked. On a whim tried Oyendigital drivers (their card is similar, and I based off of a comment on amazon that it worked with some issues)
Tried my 1 USB3 drive on USB2 using blackmagic disk speed test (MAS), got around ~30mB/s Read/Write
Tried it in expresscard and got ~40mB/s read and write in the beginning, but it was jumping around to ~100+ mB/s read and WRITE. True indeed, my drive is faster- I am very happy that it works ATM
Pros:
Supports USB3 AND USB2 devices
FAST- ~100 mb/s WRITE
Hot Swappable (Works perfectly, BTW)
Flush with laptop
Cons:
Gets a bit warm in slot, but ok by me
Ports are a bit close, and card is a bit easily pulled out by pulling device plug.
Does NOT support USB3 power specs (gets ~600ma total, rather than ~900ma per port)
Cannot support 2 powered (eg external portable hard drive) devices at once, but it can do 1 at a time (< havn't tested this yet.., but highly probable)
Due to bus speed might not hit full USB3 speeds
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Hi,
Thanks for the above - did this USB 3.0 card work with portable hard drives when connected?
Bazzy!
I only have a USB 2.0 external (portable) drive, it worked fine with that and a flash drive plugged into the other port.
I'm hoping for a reasonably priced TB-> USB 3 adapter comes out soon. I don't need or want a $250 station with a bunch of ports, just something that goes TB-> USB 3.
I actually got this to work 4 days ago on my Late '08 MBP (15")
Basically, I got this card (Brand GMYLE) on Amazon for $10 total (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846)
Oh man thanks for sharing that, USB 3 for $10! Quick question, are you running Lion or Snow Leopard?
Lion 10.7.4 ATM
though I do have a 10.6 partition on it if you need to check...
Yes please!
Yes please!
Yes please!
After much trial: in short. No. It didnt work
Aww man, thanks for trying though. I'm stuck on 10.6 due to a decent amount of PPC software and I'm not that big a fan of some of the features in Lion. Looks like I'm sticking with eSata for a while.
Thanks again!
In contrary to @astroboy907's experience, who found Oyen digital driver to work with his card, mine did not (ordered from gmyle.com October 2012).
After some googling I found that, apparently, these GMYLE USB 3.0 express cards were produced in different batches with different chipsets.
So I tried the other driver options, and in my case the CalDigital driver (http://www.caldigit.com/KB/index.asp?KBID=108) works, on a MacBook PRO 17" 2010 with Mac OS X 10.8.
Thanks for all the hints in this discussion, which encouraged me to try the GMYLE card in the first place!
Hello there.
I just got one of those cheap Gmyle BC628 from ebay, but I couldn't get it to work. I just installed Oyendigital and Caldigit drivers, but nothing. Power does get through, as a usb dvd drive spins, but nothing is recognised.
Here is my system profile for the card
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Did you just ran the .pkg's or did something different?
I too am having this problem. Are either of you (zackkmac, or rev.b) running OSX 10.8?Any luck on this? I'm also stuck in the same boat.
I too am having this problem. Are either of you (zackkmac, or rev.b) running OSX 10.8?
The reason I ask is because I am running OSX 10.7 and it looks like Oyendigital updated their drivers to only work on 10.8 so I theorize that for 10.8 users the drivers will work but for 10.7 and below they are no longer providing the driver. (again just a theory)
A response would be kindly appreciated.