Thank you for that. Very good information. I'm gathering from the fact that you need drivers that you can't really boot off of USB attached media with the Expresscard adapters? Basically, if you plug in a bootable USB drive into the adapter pre-boot the BIOS does or doesn't see the USB drive? I cou...

Somebody on Reddit had also mentioned that you couldn’t usb boot off of the express card USB adapters but they didn’t go into any details. That's right; you cannot. Or at least I have never seen one where you could, at least on a stock Thinkpad BIOS. This is because the required boot ROM is not par...

Hello, I have tried two different expressCard to usb3 adapters. The Startech ECUSB3S11 slides in and out nicely. I haven't tested speeds carefully. On a X200s there was 50% speed improvement when copying one big file. I would avoid the WBTUO USB 3.0 to Adapter Hidden Express Card ExpressCard LT402 ...

Welcome to the forum. :) You can start here: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=127819 I would avoid uPD720202-based cards because they have ASPM issues with Sandy Bridge laptops. Asmedia ASM1042 seems to be good (Gmyle BC628) but they have gotten ridiculously expensive on eBay... If you d...

Hello everyone! I've done some searching but can't seem to find the exact answer I need. Is there an ExpressCard 34 USB 3.0 card that is available that gives something faster than the USB 2.0 only ports on my stock vanilla T420? I'm using my USB ports to boot Windows 10 off of USB. It's a bit slow o...