SoNNeT Allegro USB-C 4-port PCIe Card [Thunderbolt compatible]

Over the past few years I have completely customised my beloved old Mac Pro Tower by adding a faster CPU, more RAM, a PCI SSD and this little beauty from Sonnet. To be condemned to USB 2 ports in this day and age is pure torture. Luckily the good people at Sonnet have come to the rescue with this 4-port USB 3.1 gen2 PCIe card. Installing it was literally plug and play.Now I can attach any modern, high-speed, peripherals like an external USB-C (3.1 gen2) M.2 SSD drive and get very decent speeds. The screen grabs below are from a Sabrent 1TB M.2 NVMe inside a Sabrent enclosure. This PCIe card by Sonnet has completely transformed my computer's abilities. Very impressed.

Great. Has given my Mac Pro 5.1 a new lease of life. Installed with zero problems, no drivers and no extra power cables to hook up. The whole process took about 3 minutes.

Now purchased my third card as the previous two failed; the first within a week, the second in 49 weeks. Two of the four ports fail to communicate or recognise a USB device when inserted. When working the card works great on my MacPro.

Excellent product. Just plugged it into my Mac and it just works. No drivers needed.

You want a working third party expansion for Mac? Spend a bit more once, go for Sonnet products.

Solid card. A bit pricy as opposed to others but flawless in a Mac Pro 2019. 4 ports but really dual lane (dual bus) as it’s spitting out 10 MB/s twice, so total of 20 MB/s. You will not get 4 x 10MB/s, but you will however get 2 x full 10 MB/s.

Montata su mac pro 5.1 12 core, funziona senza alcun problema. Velocissima e molto stabile.Sonnet ancora una volta non delude.

Vraiment Plug en Play.Aucuns drivers à installer.Reconnu dès le premier démarrage.Installé sur un hackinstosh AMD Ryzen. (SMBios MacPro 2019) Fonctionne à merveille sous Big Sur et Monterey. J'ai branché notamment deux adapteurs USBC / Ethernet reconnus immédiatement et évidemment des SSD USB qui fonctionnement à pleine vitesse.

I plugged this card into a 5 year old desktop (MSI X99 SLI PLUS with Intel Core i7-5960X) and it works flawlessly, using both Ubuntu and Windows 10.Main downside: The card is pretty expensive. $130 seems like too much for a few ports.However, there is a lot to like:- The USB ports are actually faster than my old onboard Type-A. Oculus Link works perfectly. Using a Samsung T5 external SSD I am seeing read rates of 554 MB/s (which is probably limited by the SSD).- I was a bit worried about the ports being so far to the side (as opposed to centered). This is an odd design choice, but luckily it hasn't been a problem for any of the cables I have. They all fit well.- A nice surprise: The description claims "up to 7.5W power per port". I have actually measured 5V/3A on a single port, so the card over-delivers here.- This card embraces modern ports and instead of adding more legacy ports (which I have more than enough of anyway, especially given that all of my peripherals have been Type-C for years now). Given how even brand-new motherboards usually just come with just a single Type-C (but plenty of Type-A), that is really nice.

im Mac Pro 2019.Die Beschreibung des Herstellers trifft zu 100% zu. Bitte unbedingt die angegebenen Steckermaße berücksichtigen, sonst geht/gehen der/die USB-C-Stecker nicht ganz in die Buchse. Funktioniert bei mir dennoch fehlerfrei.