Sonnet’s Allegro Pro USB-C 8-Port PCIe Card enables users to connect and power up to eight high-performance USB peripherals to their computer at the same time and provides a full 10Gbps connection ...

Sonnet Technologies today announced the availability of two new four-port, dual-controller SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps PCIe® adapter cards, the Allegro™ Pro USB 3.1 PCIe and Allegro USB-C 4-Port PCIe. The ...

Performance of the adapter was great in both eSATA and SATA. We touched 500 MB/s in both testing scenarios. USB 3.0 performance was solid, but if we compare to native USB 3.0 on our Intel chipset ...

With most PCIe Wi-Fi 7 adapters priced around $50, and USB and M.2 variants slightly less, the clever move is to add an adapter or swap out the existing M.2 wireless card for its Wi-Fi 7 counterpart.

By contrast, USB wireless adapters take the term plug and play to a new level of ease. You'll then want to consider what frequency you'll require for your wireless connection, 2.4GHz or 5.0GHz.

What form factor do you need Do you need USB, PCIe, or M.2 to attach the adapter to your computer Depending on the computer you're buying the Wi-Fi adapter for, you might need one of three types.

PCIe WiFi adapters, on the other hand, plug into the PCIe slot on your motherboard, much like a GPU would. They are far bigger than USB WiFi adapters, however, but do tend to offer better performance.

And I would bet no one makes a decent Bluetooth adapter by itself on a PCIe card or even a good USB one with external antenna etc. I had a sound card that turned out to be obviously a similar design.

One of Thunderbolt's strongest competitors is the faster new USB 3.0, which isn't on this 2011 MacBook Air but which now is standard on new 2012 Macs. USB 3.0 can't match Thunderbolt for speed ...

The USB 3.0 cable is different on both ends from the traditional connectors used on USB 2.0 cables. The A end looks the same externally but has additional pins on the inside of the connector.

Users without native USB 3.0 support will need an adapter card like the one StarTech provided us to use with their enclosure. The adapter card is an x1 PCIe card that features a black PCB.

Overall Mini PCI-e is a fairly unloved interface, but we’ve seen the reverse of this hack before, a Mini PCI-e to USB adapter used to add a 12-axis sensor to a laptop. [Thanks to Itay for the tip!] ...