Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:11:13 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Compatability for various USB 3.0 / PCIe cards ? Message-ID: <21690.1353705073@tristatelogic.com>
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Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop time! This year it appears that everybody and his brother is having a sale on compact (mostly 2.5 inch) external drives, and most of them nowadays have a USB 3.0 connection. That's swell, and there are some really good bargains on these things out there... especially today... but there is a fly in the ointment. My older motherboards don't have built-in USB 3.0 support, so I'll need to add that. So I'd like to know what (if any) USB 3.0 / PCIe adapter cards are known to work well with FreeBSD at this time. The cheapest one I found on Newegg was about thirteen bucks, but of course they don't say anything about what chips are on that exactly. There's also a Syba branded one on mazon for about fourteen bucks, and in this case it explicitly says "Asmedia Chipset". So? What works with FreeBSD? (Keep in mind that I don't want to spend much. Oddly enough, some of these things are priced in the low teens, as I've said, but others cost as much as fifty bucks. I can't imagine that there is really that much different about the pricey ones to make them worth the extra money.) Regards, rfg
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