Below are three albums with explanations of each step in the captions:

Read my post on Reddit all about the mod by clicking HERE.

Installing:

Testing:

Benchmarking:

For benchmarking I used Ubuntu’s built in benchmarking tool and two USB drives; one 32 gb USB 2.0 one and one 128gb USB 3.0 one on both the internal USB 2.0 and PCI-E USB 3.0 ports. The results are pictured below.

Results:

The results above show an expected significant performance boost on the USB 3.0 drive when moving from 2.0 to 3.0, and surprisingly even a small increase on the USB 2.0 drive when moved to the 3.0 port. Another Interesting thing is how the access time decreases slightly on the PCI-E bus as opposed to the internal USB Bus. See graphs below for visual representation of data: