Well, so far it's a bust, but not because the concept is flawed, but rather because the products I bought are entirely DOA and non functional out of the box. Plugged them into two different PCs and the devices don't register at all, the LED does not come on, windows Device Manager doesn't refresh, etc.... The USB device did not work on either a PC with USB 2.0, or a laptop with USB 3.0. The PCI-E device did not work either when plugged into the USB adapter, or, when plugged directly into a PCI-E slot on the laptop.

Maybe I'll research if there are better brands of these kinds of things.