In order to manually install the drivers you can go into device manager (start menu–> type “device manager” in the search box) then find the USB 3.0 card and double click, then select the drivers tab and from there you can choose update driver and then select the unzipped driver package you downloaded.
Feel free to contact us at about the options for getting our products in Canada. Because your laptop has Windows XP, I would double check that it has an ExpressCard slot. The PCI-e slot is physically similar, but electronically incompatible with some earlier interfaces. I’m wondering what the make and model of your laptop is. Usbus0: 5.The AKE express card is not a Plugable product, but I believe it does use the NEC/Renesas chipset, so it should use the same driver package. Xhci0: mem 0xfdbff000-0xfdbfffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 What command in FreeBSD are you using to backup/sync your data to an external drive via one of these cards? ReplyĪ “CSL PCIe USB 3.0 CARD” has a VL805, too. Usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0 Reply the detection messages of 2 cards like below When I try to copy a 9GB file to it, the NEC card’s max speed is 150MB/s, the VLI card’s max speed is 200MB/s.
I test with a usb3.0 portable disk with a VLI controller as well. And the VLI card is a little bit faster than NEC. Replyīase on my recent test, I confirmed all of usb3.0 pci-e cards with VLI VL805 or NEC 720200 controller can work pretty well on FreeBSD 11.1. However my impression is these devices all use the standard XHCI interface so I would figure if OpenIndiana supported XHCI it would support any USB 3.0 card that did, including this one. Hey Robert, I couldn’t say since OpenIndiana is a completely different OS from FreeBSD. Will this be able to work on openindiana oios as well ? Reply With both cards we were able to max out two external USB 3.0 hard disks (WD Passport Ultra), one on each port, simultaneously getting about 110 MiB/sec on each disk which is the maximum to expect on an external HD.ĥ Responses to “FreeBSD Compatible USB 3.0 PCIe Cards” So if you need something immediately the Insigna is also a good option.īoth come up under FreeBSD 10.1 using the built in xhci driver: The Insignia does not have the header to do this, but does have the advantage of being available at most BestBuy stores. We like to format these with ZFS as well so we know the data was written properly … a topic for another blog entry though!Īll things considered I prefer the Syba card as it allowed us to activate the USB 3.0 ports on our server cases via the 19-pin USB 3.0 header, while still also providing rear USB 3.0 ports as well. Both are excellent options for things like backups to external hard drives. Performance was both good and comparable for both cards. Insignia USB 3.0 PCIe x1 2.0 Card – 2-Port (Model NS-PCCUP53) Syba USB 3.0 PCIe x1 2.0 Card – 2-Port with internal 19 Pin USB 3.0 Header (Model SD-PEX20139) While looking to add USB 3.0 ports to two servers which had no motherboard ports we tested out two different cards: