mostlygeek
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Wanted to share this with the community. I know quite a few people built their NAS with the ASRock 2750d4i, which doesn't have USB3 headers and a case with USB3 ports. I have a FreeNAS running on a ASRock 2750D4I in a Fractal Design node304 case. The Vantec UGT-PC345 was essentially plug/play. It was recognized in FreeNAS 9.10 with zero configuration.
The motherboard recognized the card immediately. I tried another USB3 PCIe card and the motherboard wouldn't even POST. I was even able to boot off of it using a USB thumb drive to install FreeNAS onto a SSD. Excellent card for very good price.
I plugged a 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub (STEL8000100) into the USB ports on the card. FreeNAS immediately recognized the drive and I was able to format and add it as a new volume from the web interface. I copied a 9GB file to it and it easily sustained 136MB/second.
Hopefully this helps out somebody looking for a compatible USB3 PCIe card with internal USB headers.
The 136MB/sec seems to be a limitation somewhere as I did a copy read/write from my ssd disk (to itself) and it can't seem to exceed that. :hmm.
The motherboard recognized the card immediately. I tried another USB3 PCIe card and the motherboard wouldn't even POST. I was even able to boot off of it using a USB thumb drive to install FreeNAS onto a SSD. Excellent card for very good price.
I plugged a 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub (STEL8000100) into the USB ports on the card. FreeNAS immediately recognized the drive and I was able to format and add it as a new volume from the web interface. I copied a 9GB file to it and it easily sustained 136MB/second.
Hopefully this helps out somebody looking for a compatible USB3 PCIe card with internal USB headers.
The 136MB/sec seems to be a limitation somewhere as I did a copy read/write from my ssd disk (to itself) and it can't seem to exceed that. :hmm.