From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 21:19:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12733BB for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:19:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE568FC08 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57085081A for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:11:13 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Compatability for various USB 3.0 / PCIe cards ? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:11:13 -0800 Message-ID: <21690.1353705073@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:19:18 -0000 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