Adding extra internal USB ports

I need to add more USB ports to my Mac Pro. Is it a case of buying a PCI Express USB card? They sell on Amazon for nearly £40, which seems high, but they don't mention OS X compatibility?
Thanks in advance.

Any will or might do, but many can also interfere with sleep, wake from sleep freezing, and other issues
http://www.macsales.com has PCI Express cards.
Aaxeon has USB2 but their FW cards are known to keep fan still running and therefore not "deep sleep" mode.

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Since a few days, my usb keyboard does not work well. It only want to work properly when plugged to the rights side usb port internal port and not anymore on the left one. It also work on a usb external concentrator. Before, I had no problem, it worked perfectly. There was no problem such as cofee on it...
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thanks for the info. as I explained, I was trying to install an Express 34/54 reader card into one of the PCIe slots on a Mac Intel. There are cards out there, but they come with an additional usb cable that you must connect from the card (mini-usb connector) to the mother board (a female 5-pin connector--single row).
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I've just installed a PCI card in my G5 in order to add more USB ports. When I started searching for one, i was surprised to see most had an internal port, I couldn't really see the use of that. A friend told me it can be used on PCs to plug an extension towards a free port in front of the main unit.
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I have the microsoft arc mouse and keyboard and each of them have seperate transrecievers. The macbook air only has two ports. If I bought a usb hub would this enable me to plug the transrecievers into the hub so I would have 1 usb port free? Or is there no way to do this?
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Dropped Frames on Capture/ Adding extra USB buses to a G5

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www.xlr8yourmac.com its over my head but...
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Adding USB ports to mac pro

Hi,
i was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to fit more usb ports in the back of the Mac Pro?
I got my mac pro about 4/5 years ago, and could really use some more ports.
Thanks for any help and advice,
Tom

Linc Davis wrote:
What's wrong with using a hub?
A few things:
With a hub, all devices must share the bandwidth of the one built-in port the hub is on. If one device on the hub takes up all the port bandwidth, too bad for the others. Or they will fight it out. But with most types of USB cards, each individual port on the card gets full USB bandwidth...no conflicts.
You need to use up a built-in USB port to plug in a hub, so adding a 4-port hub only gives you 3 more new ports in reality. With a USB card, all card ports are in addition to the Mac Pro ports.
A hub needs to take up one more outlet on your power strip. Or two or three outlets if it has a big transfomer. A USB card uses the Mac Pro power supply directly with no additional messy power and data cables.
A hub probably doesn't cost that much less than a USB card, if there is any price difference at all, yet the card has so many more advantages.
About the only reason to not get a USB card is that you've already used up the slots in your Mac Pro.

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