No problems, instead a hardware review that might help. I use two machines as servers, one acts as an offsite hot spare for the other. They have external Seagate USB3 drives for backups, and connect through PCIe to USB3 interface cards.
After good luck with a Plugable card that is no longer made, and bad luck with a BYTECC card that should never have been made, I ordered a couple of cards from Newegg to see which one works better with my ancient RHEL 6 linux (2.6.32 kernel) and mobos. The winner is a Siig JU-P40212-S1, $30.00 from Newegg. (on sale? and free shipping - "7 day egg saver" was one day from soCal). More information at http://wiki.keithl.com/USB3Test Keith P.S. Yes, I know the Seagates are unreliable. But they are cheap and 8 watts and fast, and two of them on external wall warts is more survivable than an internal drive sharing the same power supply as a drive I want to back up. I plan to power them through a USB-controlled power switch, so they are powered off and inaccessable and difficult to hack when I am not actively using one of them at a time (ping-pong alternate days). What, me paranoid? -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
