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USB 3.0 card that actually works for early 2008 3,1 Mac Pro
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I have the inateck card working faultlessly under Yosemite in a Mac Pro 3,1. For people who are having trouble with the usb 3 external hard drives not being ejected, have a look at a simple piece of software called Jettison. It takes the hassle away and is a really simple automated solution.
Thanks for the tip. I wasn't much bothered by the warning message as the chances of any writes to disc being in flight while the Mac Pro goes to sleep are vanishingly small but this utility looks like just the ticket.
Some people pointed out that the Amazon AD for the Inateck card indicates it won't work with Yosemite. This is false, it works fine. I spoke with Inateck yesterday and they told me it was an error on their part, and that the AD would soon be updated to reflect Yosemite compatibility.
[doublepost=1458076335][/doublepost]Inateck makes a 2 port and 4 port USB 3.0 pic card that works flawlessly on my Mac Pro 2009 (4.1). They are also cheap
At $29.99CAN for the 2 port and $35CAN for the 4 port. Work great with El Capitan unlike the $110US CARD I bought from MacSales that worked with Yosemite but NOT with El Capitan. Bith instead cards work even though the company says the 4 port won't work past 10.8.5 but it does!!
sigh, can't stuff just work 
Just got a new 4 TB external drive for backup and noticed transfer speed are 13 MB/s and looking at my system report my external drive is connected on my USB 2.0 bus. Did a reboot just to see if behavior would be same with a fresh login and still on USB 2.0 bus using this inateck card. I am running El Capitan 10.11.6
Edit (Duh it would help if I plugged my new hard drive into the correct card). I accidentally plugged it into my old USB 2.0 card. Now that my external drive is plugged into my inateck, super duper is chugging away at 500 MB/s
Just got a new 4 TB external drive for backup and noticed transfer speed are 13 MB/s and looking at my system report my external drive is connected on my USB 2.0 bus. Did a reboot just to see if behavior would be same with a fresh login and still on USB 2.0 bus using this inateck card. I am running El Capitan 10.11.6Edit (Duh it would help if I plugged my new hard drive into the correct card). I accidentally plugged it into my old USB 2.0 card. Now that my external drive is plugged into my inateck, super duper is chugging away at 500 MB/s
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i am actually looking for a graphics card update from my old ati radeon hd 5770, but i am also looking for a pcie usb welll..... thing because my mac is going to eventually become a server hooked up to a ton of drives.
I am still doing to use the computer normally so i would not like to use up my USB hub. I feel you
