Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-14 Thread Dean E. Weimer
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

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:11 -0500 Dean E. Weimer wrote: On 03.02.2012 21:36, RW wrote: 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.

USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread Dean E. Weimer
I am working on setting up a Bacula backup to an external hard drive. The server I am running this on has an on-board USB 2 controller, however the external USB 3 SATA drive doc I am using is only being recognized as USB 1. It does correctly load as USB 2 or USB 3 if I move it to my windows

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
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

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread Dean E. Weimer
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

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 2/3/2012 1:56 PM, Dean E. Weimer wrote: 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 dont, but I have used the cards from Addonics

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread John Levine
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

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread RW
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

Re: USB 3 / eSATA support

2012-02-03 Thread Dean E. Weimer
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