


You don't need to use that option, however, and can stick with just the two on the back. I very much like the Akasa front interface that fits perfectly into the old unused floppy drive area. This header can be extended by a single paired cable to the front, which gives two more front conventional looking USB ports. The other two are at the "back" of the card (facing forwards inside the workstation) as a standard "motherboard to USB 3.0" type of multipin header. Two will be on the backplane of the card, at the rear, and look like normal USB 3.0 ports. The TI version is the card to get, and it has four USB 3.0 ports output potential instead of two ("2x2"). The first version was based on the on-card NEC/Renasus chip, had two USB 3.0 outputs, and was dumped by HP in favor of a newer chipset from Texas Instruments. Instead, there is a HP card, available as an option, that plugs into a PCIe slot and gives USB 3.0 output. There wil not be a USB 3.0 port you can tap into. I'm about to go pop open the Z400 and look under the hoodīut does anyone know of hand before I do so, if the Z400 motherboard will have a slot to add a USB 3.0 card? Will this be possible or will I find that it does not have a slot of USB 3.0? Many people said, "Well if you don't use firewire, at least go with USB 3.0 instead of USB 2.0" and so I am considering going USB 3.0. So I decide to go with USB 2.0 instead of firewire for the Ex Hard Drives. I am only using a firewire connection to connect my audio interface, Avid says for running external hard drives to use USB 2.0 for windows computers and firewrire fro Macs I have to run seperate external hard drives, one for my projects and audio, and one for my sample libraries (I'll have a 3rd for storage) as it's better to just have the computer hard drive for running the OS and recording DAW software I purchased a HP Z400 Workstation Xeon Quad-Core W3565 3.2GHz 8GB 1TB DVDRW Windows 7 ProĪs it was listed as a supported pc from Avid to record with Pro Tools Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.

