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.

As described, arrived on time.

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.

When I installed this card into a Dell 3671 desktop computer which was about 18 months old at the time, and all drivers and BIOS kept up to date, it prevented the computer from booting. The install process described in the manual was extremely simple without much opportunity for error - (Open the computer. Find an open PCIE slot and install it. Close the computer.) When I'd start the computer, the fan would run about 1/2 second and then it would shut down. My guess is that it was drawing too much power from the PCI-E bus, but I'm not certain. It does not have any other type of power supply to the card. I installed this card into another computer, and it did not have the same problem. There is no real help that I could find on their website which had no phone number. I did write to their support email address, but got no response from them on it. Note, I did replace it with a similar card from YEELIYA which had a connector on it so that you could power it with a SATA cable which I did, and it worked fine in the computer that was failing with the FebSmart card.

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.

I contacted their tech support. Not expecting much, but over the next few exchanges, the support people found my issue and gave me clear concise instructions on how to complete it. More than I anticipated. The product works well, included an instruction sheet (handy) and a driver disk (unneeded). It does what I bought it for, so I am happy.

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.