From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 20:08:37 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 48924106566C for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:08:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from leila.iecc.com (leila6.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:4c:6569:6c61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2518FC18 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49764 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2012 20:08:21 -0000 Received: from leila.iecc.com (64.57.183.34) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 3 Feb 2012 20:08:21 -0000 Date: 3 Feb 2012 20:07:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20120203200759.77317.qmail@joyce.lan> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: USB 3 / eSATA support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:08:37 -0000 I have an two-disk external box with both USB and eSATA interface. Go with eSATA, which is better supported as a disk. I use mine as a ZFS mirror. I have a SiI3124 SATA controller which isn't recognized by the generic kernel, but works fine once I put a suitable hint in loader.conf: # for external SATA siis_load="YES" I also have three USB disks configured as a ZFS RAID which I use for backups. It works OK, but I wouldn't want to depend on it from day to day. R's, John