Is there an after market Thunderbolt adaptor for an open PCI slot?

I would like to use thunderbolt external hard drives with my 2 year old Mac Tower.  Is there a thunderbolt PCI expansion card I can install for the newer drives (which seems to be doing away with firewire)?  Or if worst case a USB 3 PCI expansion card?
Thank you

There's no thunderbolt PCI-e interface cards are available. If you need to use Thunderbolt interface devices, you need to get newer Macs which have Thunderbolt ports.
I've been using Sonnet Allegro USB3.0 4 ports card with Mac Pro 2009 and it works OK.
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrousb3pcie4port.html

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