From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 18:56:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F3D106566B for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (adsl-70-129-195-213.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [70.129.195.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C458FC15 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q13Iu5XA069136; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:56:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:56:05 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" To: Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <4F2BF2F4.4010903@sentex.net> References: <7812e1a4e56393474531630a0b2f84f1@www.dweimer.net> <4F2BF2F4.4010903@sentex.net> Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.6 Cc: mike@sentex.net Subject: Re: USB 3 / eSATA support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:56:07 -0000 On 03.02.2012 09:45, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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 It's Looking like eSATA is going to be my pick, to be on the safe side, I could spend the $50 on a USB 3 card, and have it not work, or spend $50 on an eSATA card and another $40 for the drive doc, and cable. If the USB card doesn't work for me then I either have to deal with additional shipping and restocking fees, or just keep the card and eat the expense. Unfortunately I live in a small town where this hardware isn't available locally, so online is my only choice. Does anyone have any experience using the SYBA Cards on FreeBSD? SYBA SD-SATA2-2E2I PCI SATA II: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 I know this isn't anything enterprise class, but this is my home system after all, and there's a point where its cheaper to just buy all my iTunes music and Movies over again than throw hardware at a backup solution. I think I have already passed that, but there are several gigs of photos that can't be replaced, and I am trying to get something a little more portable to be taken to work unlike my current method of rsync with two machines at the house. I am using bacula instead of rsync for this, simply because my employer recently purchased a controlling interest in a small electrical engineering design firm to make sure it had priority access to get some components designed as we migrate our dieing mechanical lines into electronic. I am tasked with implementing a next to zero cost backup solution for them, and as they are Linux based on all there servers, I decided to implement a local bacula server at my house to to learn the product before setting it up for them. I am hoping to maybe sneak in some FreeBSD replacements to their Ubuntu file servers if I can (maybe FreeNAS, depending on how my tests go with installing and backing up through bacula client on it). I have already replaced their consumer firewalls with pfSense boxes running on Alix boards, which has turned out to be a huge stability and performance gain for them. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/