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September 22, 2017, 11:58:12 PM |
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As has been said, it does not work this way. Although those extenders do indeed use a USB 3 cable to transfer data, it is simply a reuse of a commonly available cable and connectors, it does not follow the USB 3 standard for data transfer. Basically a cable is just a cable, made of wires that any protocols can take advantage of. The USB 3 standard requires both ends, usually a peripheral and a USB controller or hub on either side of the cable to operate. In the case of a PCIe extender, there is no USB controller or peripheral, again it is just using a commonly available cable.
For an even simpler analogy, think of using standard two conductor "lamp cord" to wire your speakers. While the lamp cord is designed to run 120V and maybe 8 amps, it also works just fine for feeding your speakers from your receiver. Another example may be using Cat 5 or 6 network cables to run a standard twisted pair analog phone line. Heck, you could even use LAN cable to wire your door bell or many other things. So basically the USB cable is being re-purposed for a specific functionality in the PCIe extender but it is NOT using the USB protocol and will not work with USB ports.
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