Our son is 17 and he’s very shy but with us, his parents, he’s not so shy. A few weeks ago he told his mother that he wanted a new “USB 3.0” External Hard Drive. So, last night, unbenknownst to them, I went to a Best Buy and I bought him a Western Digital My Book Essential 2 TB USB 3.0 + USB 2.0.
As soon as I told my wife, but before we gave it to him, she began to wrrap it in wrapping paper but then she stopped short. She said to me, “Are sure you this is the one he wants?” and I said to “To be honest, I don’t know. I just went in there and the salesman showed me this one and another brand.”
“I think it needs a card,” she said. “A card? What kind of card? An adapter card such that that the USB 3.0 ports work.”
–This, of course, is a question I should have put to the salesman but I didn’t.
So my question for this community is the following: Does the Western Digital My Book Essential (with “SmartWare” software) USB 3.0 + 2.0 require the use of a PCIe adapter card for My Book 3.0. to take full advantage of what USB 3.0 has to offer?
Thank you so much your responses.