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I've had this for about a year now. It still went in though, and does the job. I don't recall having any problems with it except that plugging in the firewire cable was a little tight. Seems like it might be because the verticle jacks are almost flush with the slot openings in the case. Probably a slight alignment of the card in the slot would fix it. Included cable makes it worth the higher price.
However, I went by the picture and got what I thought I'd be getting. Not a bad deal when you factor in the cable and free 2nd day shipping with Amazon Prime. The product actually has a total of 8 ports: 4 external/1 internal USB 2.0 and 2 external/1 internal 6-pin firewire. The computer I bought this for has a mATX motherboard with only four expansion card slots, 6 USB 2.0 ports and no firewire, so by using the internal USB port for the 8 gb memory stick I use for Vista pre-fetch, this card effectively doubled my external USB connectivity, added Firewire and kept the other slots free for an e-sata raid, blackmagic intensity card and graphics card. On a negative side, the card did have a noticeable ding on one side when it arrived, with a matching dent in the anti-static wrap indicating that it happened sometime after assembly. However, it powered up without a problem and on testing all of the ports seemed to function properly, as did the supplied 6-4 pin Firewire cable.
Purchased as a christmas gift but was defective. I returned it to the manufacturer with relative ease and prompty received a refund.
All the ports seem to work OK, but when the 2006 Dell E310 Dimension case is reassembled, the way the usb ports are aligned perpendicular instead of parallel to the bracket prevents their use. For my needs maybe 2 USB and 1 FW port might have been enough, if they were in the proper bracket oreintation, and I use a powered USB hub. I didn't return it however.
Saw that two of the legs on IC were touching. Looks to be poorly soldered. First one in computer would not start. Also had bought 2 other Sabrent products, one of those two was broke out of box, that 3 out of 4 = 75% bad out of box.
Has whitish stuff on IC legs. Bought two. Had out white stuff on legs. Both items had QC Passed stickers. Second one made computer studdddder and USB writes were slow to an SD card.
I bought these two a month apart. What a joke. Tried in two computers. Stay away from Sabrent. Loading down the bus some way.
Took it out, computer went back to normal. It is cheap but it is junk made in China. I have not so good eyes anymore and could see the bent legs and white stuff without a magnifier.
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