Because intel chipsets does not have usb 3.1 controller, that is why.
Gigabyte uses alpine ridge chip, which is actually thunderbolt controller.
Gigabyte is the only manufacturer with this type of usb 3.1, others use asmedia 1142 (i guess its cheaper)

@Fernando,
Thanks for the clarification.
May be can we hope that Intel will release in the future only one driver covering USB 3.0 and USB 3.1, this will simplify the life for every body.

Maybe, when 200 series comes with usb 3.1 support.

@Fernando
After all the tests I have done, I have observed the in-box W10 (x64) MS USB 3.0 drivers offers more compatibilities with any USB 3.0 devices.
May be sometimes performance is not as expected, but we can hope significant improvements in a future OS update.
So, definitively my preference is to forget all these Intel USB 3.0 V3.0 and V4.0 branchs.

Any chance one of these drivers could be used (or modified for use) with a >2.2TB GPT HDD in an external USB 3.1 enclosure in conjunction with 32-bit Windows XP Pro SP3? I have four 3 TB WD Reds (WD30EFRX), one of which I've had in my desktop (specs below) formatted GPT working happily with the Paragon GPT Loader for some time now. Just bought two Vantec NexStar NST-370A31 USB 3.1 enclosures for a couple of the other drives (formerly in a NAS box). Drives work fine formatted GPT in the enclosures with 64-bit Windows 8 (multi-boot on same system). Enclosures don't come with drivers or any other software; just work with USB drivers built into Vista and higher. I did test a 500 GB MBR disk in the enclosures with XP Pro, and worked just fine (as expected). So it's just the ability to read GPT via USB that's the issue. They show up in XP under Device Manager\Disk Drives as "WDC WD30 EFRX-68AX9N0 USB Device," but don't show up in Disk Manager.

The enclosures ultimately aren't intended for this system, which is old (will be building a new one in a year or so); but XP Pro on this hardware is still my main workstation (I work from home) until I have time to build/configure another--which is a mammoth task. So I don't care about speed, just would like to be able to access the full capacity of the disks from XP in the interim (...which could be a while). I know it's easy to say just use Win 8 (or upgrade to 10); but what you don't know is I have >$20,000 in software that takes an eon to load and customize--just don't want to get into that, as it will cost me a fortune in time.

I'm familiar with the 32-bit addressing limit issue, so no need to go into that. I ask here because after reading this thread it seems some folks are willing to think out of the box. Obviously Paragon figured out GPT for 32-bit XP via the SATA interface; just wish they did the same via USB. Unfortunately, I know little of the USB spec; so in my ignorance this may be an absurd request. If so, I apologize.

Ideally, would like to be able to read the drives from within XP Pro with the enclosures connected directly via USB. But I could also connect the enclosures to my Synology DiskStation DS412+ NAS via USB 3.0 ports on back over LAN.

Thanks for any help.

@Fernando

I meant any of the drivers you made available at the beginning of this thread.

The main ingredient here is USB and GPT on a 32-bit OS; and the more I read, it doesn't appear that what I want is possible if the external devices are connected to a USB port (whether MOBO or hub) on the computer.

If I could buy a USB-to-eSATA cable/converter to connect the external USB drives to eSATA ports on my computer, that might work as the Paragon GPT loader should translate the data coming through the SATA Ports. But I haven't found any yet that are powered; and the USB port on the enclosures is a Type B. There are plenty of options for connecting external SATA/eSATA devices to USB ports on the computer (since power is supplied to the converter via USB); but to go the other direction, the adapter/converter would need a separate power source.

I do have a couple old eSATA/USB/Firewire enclosures for which I'm dumping the drives (old and overheating). Might just put the newer drives in these enclosures and use eSATA in the meantime.

Thanks for the comments.

Is there a benefit of fernando modded intel usb3 version 4 drivers over the latest Intel drivers when using 7 series board.Thanks.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #192

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Zitat von toasttt im Beitrag #190

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Is there a benefit of fernando modded intel usb3 version 4 drivers over the latest Intel drivers when using 7 series board.

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Why don't you test it yourself?

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@Fernando

Thanks for the clarification.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #185

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@ all:

Since 100PIER returned meanwhile to the in-box MS USB 3.0 drivers, there seem to be not many users, who are still using the Intel USB 3.0 drivers, which have been modded and signed by me.
So here is my question: Is there still a demand or interest in these modded+signed USB 3.0 drivers?
If not resp. if I will not get a feedback, I will remove them from the start post.

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