From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 03:49:13 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 9424C1065674 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:49:13 +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 365338FC15 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:49:12 +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 q143nBEo005905 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:49:11 -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 22:49:11 -0500 From: "Dean E. Weimer" To: Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20120204023652.0354836b@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <7812e1a4e56393474531630a0b2f84f1@www.dweimer.net> <4F2BF2F4.4010903@sentex.net> <20120204023652.0354836b@gumby.homeunix.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.6 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: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:49:13 -0000 On 03.02.2012 21:36, RW wrote: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:56:05 -0500 > Dean E. Weimer wrote: > > >> 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. > > Just in case you aren't aware, you don't necessarily need an eSATA > card. You can get eSATA back-plates that plug into spare SATA > connections on your motherboard. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" That the board has plenty of, how does that work with removing the drives? Does it require a reboot? I think for now I am going to build FreeBSD VM on my windows box and dedicate it to running Bacula Director and Storage Daemon, I was able to get a 20MB sustained through put through the VMware USB emulation copying a file from an SFTP as I had no large files on the local system from my test FreeBSD 9 VM. Though now I don't know why I didn't think to just us dd from /dev/random to a file on the disk, will likely give that a try once my new VM is built. This will get me by performance to a workable speed until I can come up with a more permanent solution, and keep me from spending more money this month so I have a little bit left to add to my savings account. I am also looking around, and I have enough spare components to build another machine and just run it with the case open and do a shutdown and swap hard drives, but I might go broke paying my electric bill if I keep adding new PCs for everything. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/