IOGEAR 5-Port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 PCI Card GIC251U
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Customer Review: Not suitable for older Macs
Summary: 1 Stars
I put one of these in my G4 Sawtooth (OS 10.4) and experienced lockup on wake from sleep if the thumb drive isn't ejected before sleep. After several sleep wake cycles, devices won't mount unless you restart. The package says OSX compatible but this isn't really true. The card works, but these issues make the performance unacceptable and I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known. I contacted tech support and they said there is no fix for these issues.Customer Review: works like a charm
Summary: 5 Stars
I have windows XP and ordered this PCI card. I opened up my PC box, took out the old creative sound blaster from its PCI slot and slid in the Iogear USB 2.0 PCI card. I booted up my computer and voila! XP automatically detected the card and I have my mouse connected to one of the 4 exposed external USB ports. Its working and no problems encountered at all.
Note that there are 4 slots exposed externally, and 1 is an internal USB slot.
Customer Review: Not for Some Macs
Summary: 2 Stars
This has never worked correctly on my 1GHz (Mirrored Drive Door) PowerMac, no matter which version of Mac OS X I've used (10.3 - 10.4.9 and every revision between). The system has ongoing problems with sleep and deep sleep when this card is inserted. Despite the packaging claims and the instructions in the manual, the CD-ROM does not come with any drivers for Mac OS X. It's my understanding that these problems are limited to the MDD PowerMac.Customer Review: Fast - but incompatible with WD Passport
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this to speed up the connection to a 1TB Western Digital "Book" drive. And it increased my transfer speed to SATA drives in the system by about 30% - 50%.
And the extra ports are nice, but these USB ports apparently don't supply enough power to run a WD Passport drive. It does work with other USB-Powered devices, so I'm guessing the HDD just pulls too much current.
Other than that, I'm very happy with it.
Customer Review: Deep sleep issues
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this product to upgrade my aging PowerMac dual 450 G4. The card works perfectly for USB 2.0 but when I try to put the computer to sleep with a peripheral plugged in, the computer will not sleep. Apparently there were only a handful of USB 2.0 cards that will work correctly (allow sleep with peripheral plugged in) with the older macs. This isn't one of them. So if you're buying this for an older Mac you may want to keep looking.