Best USB PCI Card

[Dean Hamstead]

i would be careful with the theory that the usb pci card supplies
N number of completely independent USB 2.0 ports. im not sure that
they don't just supply one and then a built in N port hub.

just food for thought.

Dean

MC wrote:
> Hi I am shopping for a USB2 PCI card to support 4 or more USB hard drives.
> I thought to
> get a PCI card rather than an external USB2 hub, which splits the USB2
> bandwidth.
> Looking through the supported hardware of freebsd6.x there's a big list of
> supported
> devices, but none that match hardware vendor websites offhand.  I see for
> example
> the ALi 6+2 port USB 2.0 PCI Card with the ALi M573 chipset and VIA VT6212
> 4+1
> Port USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card with the VIA VT6212 chipset.  But these
> don't match
> anything on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html
> 
> What are the best [most compatible trouble free] USB PCI cards?
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