USB 3.0 on 17 inch Macbook Pro Early 2011?

[carolinapianoman]

Hi everyone: I saw on eBay someone just sold a Macbook Pro 17 inch Early 2011 model and it was listed as having USB 3.0. Could anyone tell me how this is possible? I contacted the guy, but he never wrote me back. I have been wanting to add USB 3.0 to my Macbook Pro 17 Inch Early 2011 but my tech. guy said it is not possible. Can anyone help on this? Thanks so much.

 

[Stork]

Not unless he had a USB 3 ExpressCard/34 card like this Sonnet: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet Technologies/USB32PME34/

 

[carolinapianoman]

Hey there - thanks for that info. Unfortunately, it got terrible ratings on Amazon and several people said it fried their hard drives!