The only way to know for sure would be to try it, and if you do need to return it we make it easy to get a full refund from Amazon for 30 days.Īs far as drivers go, there’s an installer package that should install the proper drivers for your version. I had a quick look the specs for the HP ML 110 G5 and it looks like there are two PCI-e X8 slots with X1 link but I’m not exactly sure if that’s compatible. Thumbdrives are designed to work in a standard USB port, so there shouldn’t be any exceptions for USB 3.0.įrom what I can tell there’s no PCI-e 1x slot in your target machine. The reason for the external power to hardrives is that they are often designed to use more power than the USB spec allows so they come with an AC adapter (or a double headed cable) to draw from. In fact, many people run without it connected. Thanks for your post regarding PCI-e USB3.0 card and your HP ML 110 G5 Server.įirst, the good news… even though our PCI-e USB 3.0 card has a molex connector to connect to the power supply, we’ve never run across a case where it’s necessary. Thanks for the additional info, let me know what you find, The PCI-e bus is able to provide enough power to the card to cover the 900mA per port so I suspect the Tape Drive unit is pulling more than this ammount.Ĭan you say which operating system you have and which power supplies your Power Edge Servers have? You maybe able to use a splitter on your power connectors to get power to the card, but it’s not likely to stop the over current messages.

Make sure you are using a USB 3.0 cable, as a 2.0 cable will cause the system to negotiate down to the USB 2.0 spec and the OS will then expect 500mA, max. USB 3.0 allows 900mA per port and a self powered device shouldn’t be pulling more than that. We haven’t seen an issue like this or USB 3.0 tape drives in the past so working in parallel with the Tape Drive manufacturer may be useful. It’s unusual for a device to trigger over current messages on our PCI-e card, especially when it’s self powered. Thanks for posting your question, we’ll be happy to help.

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