First post, by pentiumspeed
I made new search and eventually found a thread about slow usb using windows 10 and any ivy bridge that fits what I have experienced with slow usb and the current HP Z220 computer. Z220 is a workstation with Xeon E3-1280 V2 which is a Ivy Bridge.
The reason: Windows 10 dropped USB 3 support and ran at USB 2 mode even on those, huh? That nice of you Microsoft to promote USB 3 on Windows 10 and Ivy Bridge supports USB 3 but no to both. If you want USB 3 you have to fall back to windows 7. No dice!
This confirms what I see with Haswell based HP Elitedesk 800 G1 which ran at USB 3 mode correctly with windows 10.
This means, you have no choice is to use 7 or XP with any Ivy bridge to run USB 3 speed but this is moot point, both too old and later generations of computers are inexpensive anyway. Just buy a cheap quality business PC, specifically HP for routine daily computing but has to be Haswell or later computer for the windows 10, if you intend to keep saving up for a windows 11 supported new computer.
PS: It is already a moot point as Microsoft also recently disabled the COA 7 and 8 key activations on windows 11 last week. Good reason for this, These older computers that were on older windows are not supported anyway since these older computers does not have TPM 2.0 and Coffee Lake.
Do not tell me this is dumb. There is a good reason for these, this is was caused by hackers issues several years ago, as these cannot be protected even with anti-malware software as these issues was in the hardware had holes. The later processors after this was 2 to 3 generations later had this holes fixed in silicon hence Microsoft insisting you go to 11 at this point.
Also, software eventually drop support for windows 10 as well. Especially these installers will only install on 11, and we have to keep computers and windows current here and at my work as well.
In meantime, we can still do vintage stuff with older computers anyway for fun or for a need when someone needs something fixed is still using old computer to run expensive machines.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.