New to me mid 2010 Mac Pro

[jfalberti]

Good morning everyone. I recently bought a new to me Mid 2010 Mac Pro to replace my aging 2007 2,1. It came with a 250 GB SSD that I’m gonna dedicate as a boot camp volume for Windows 10. I have a 500 GB SSD that will be my macOS boot volume, as well as two 1 TB HDD volumes. One of these is a clone of my macOS boot volume for in case of emergency. The other is for whatever. I have two PCIe usb cards to install. One is a usb 3 with 4 ports, the other is a usb-c card with 2 ports. Question is should I install both cards, or just one? What would you do?

 

[MisterAndrew]

Do you need that many USB ports? I don’t have any usb card installed in mine. I had a usb 3.1 card in it but I took it out because Windows didn’t like it. So I use FireWire for my external HDDs.

 

[haralds]

I don't think, the extra ports hurt anything. Dedicated ports are better than an overloaded hub.
I have had issues with USB cards or devices preventing sleep. Get your system set up and checked out and install them one at a time to check for that.
I have had a USB-C card installed that never worked quite right. After some other "surgery" it lost the surface mounted power connection (not bus powered for higher output.) I pulled it and gave up on it.