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On 2/3/2012 9:31 AM, Dean E. Weimer wrote:
> 
> Would I be a lot safer spending money on an eSATA card and a eSATA doc,
> knowing that this would give be better performance, but would prefer to
> not spend any more money than I have to.
> 

I dont have much experience with usb3 devices, but the eSata cages I
have used work very well on RELENG8 and 9.

	---Mike


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