On 2012.11.23 22:11, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop > time! For me it's usually *after* Christmas season, but whatever works :)
> I can't imagine > that there is really that much different about the pricey ones to make > them worth the extra money.) I can imagine it. For a controller, negotiating USB 3.0 / XHCI protocol with a device is one thing, delivering the expected bandwidth is another. I've toyed around with enough cheap IDE and SATA adapters to know it takes more than a logo on the packaging to get decent throughput. Also, the bus needs to offer enough bandwidth to avoid being a bottleneck. Theoretical maximum speed for USB3 is 5 Gbits/s, that's a bit more than 2 PCIe lanes can sustain, so you'll want an adapter than plugs into a full-sized PCIe connector, unlike the Syba one. Hope this helps, _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"