Notebook: USB 3.0 retrofit - how it works
If you want to retrofit USB 3.0 to the Notebook, you need the following Hardware:
- The new USB 3.0 Standard allows for faster Transfers from the device to the PC and Vice versa.
- So what can you do with up to 500 MB per second transfer – if the USB connection and the cable of the 3. Generation belong to.
- But, unfortunately, all of the PCs or even laptops do not have a USB 3.0 port. On a PC this can via PCI easily retrofitted.
- This is also the Laptop or Notebook. To do this you need a so-called ExpressCard.
- These can then slide on the left side into the appropriate ExpressCard slot of your notebook. It is automatically detected. Drivers and Software are installed automatically.
- Unfortunately, there is such a slot, only for older models. You should not have such a slot so you can upgrade your Notebook unfortunately to USB 3.0.
The differences from USB 2 to USB 3 , you can in the next practical tip read.