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USB 3.0 PCI card help?

ZeusXI
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Would there be a pci card that has usb 3.0 on THE INSIDE of the case? friend wants to know and i dont know any off hand and have been looking. he wants to put his external hdd inside his computer so he doesnt have to route the hdd cables to the outside and then plug them in. he wants to plug them into the inside.

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u do have USB on the inside of the motherboard.
and yes i did see PCIE USB cards with USB on the inside.

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Just now, TheAvokadoMan said:

u do have USB on the inside of the motherboard.
and yes i did see PCIE USB cards with USB on the inside.

there are usb pins yes, but are there adapters that connect to them so you can run cables in your pc?

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Something like this? 
One side Mother Board Pins the other USB Type A?
PS it is USB2 the USB 3 is a wider connector on the Motherboard.

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1 minute ago, TheAvokadoMan said:

Something like this? 
One side Mother Board Pins the other USB Type A?
PS it is USB2 the USB 3 is a wider connector on the Motherboard.

 

YES! what is that called?

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Two options:

  1. Take the HDD out of the enclosure. All external hard drives sold nowadays have a sata interface on the inside, all you need to do is unscredw the external hard drive and voilà, you have a normal sata laptop hard drive.
  2. Buy a USB 3.0 card with a 3.0 header, they are somewhat pricey tbh but here is one. Then, using a USB header to 3.0 adapter you can adapt to the hard drive USB cable. Much less elegant though. I suggest doing what i did in no. 1

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/silverstone-ec04-p-pci-express-card-with-4x-usb-30-ports

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tfw someone posts a tech-related thread in "Off Topic".

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7 minutes ago, Mug said:

Two options:

  1. Take the HDD out of the enclosure. All external hard drives sold nowadays have a sata interface on the inside, all you need to do is unscredw the external hard drive and voilà, you have a normal sata laptop hard drive.
  2. Buy a USB 3.0 card with a 3.0 header, they are somewhat pricey tbh but here is one. Then, using a USB header to 3.0 adapter you can adapt to the hard drive USB cable. Much less elegant though. I suggest doing what i did in no. 1

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/silverstone-ec04-p-pci-express-card-with-4x-usb-30-ports

Not as common as u think. many of the 2.5" doesnt have sata just one of thos weird thin wire u see in laptops

and he didnt need a card just needed to have an actually Type A INSIDE the case.

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