Does pfSense support UASP ( USB Attached SCSI ) (updated: yes)

[Kai_null]

Does pfSense support UASP?

Background:

I just burned through a mSATA SSD with pfSense in 13 days.  :(.

Looking to buy an external USB 3 hard drive enclosure, drop spinning rust in there, and not have to worry about it for a few years.

The only ports on the board are mSATA.  It is impossible to find a HDD for mSATA.  Does have a USB 3 port though, so seems obvious.

notes:
I really cannot put the logs on a ramdisk, need persistence after crash.  Also running squid and pfblockerNG.

[heper]

How did you manage that?

[Kai_null]

not much really.

Upped the log file size to 10 megabytes.  ( x20 = 200 megabytes )

Installed squid (transparent http only) with 14 gigabyte local disk cache (only filled maybe 1/4 of that before death).  refresh_pattern . 0 95% 43200

Installed pfBlockerNG with DNSBL.  Had a few lists updating hourly.

Had about a 100 clients, 1/2 of which were mobile phones, 1/4 were smart TVs.

The SSD in question came with the unit I purchased:

[doktornotor]

Well then you could perhaps RMA the faulty SSD, instead of inventing whacky things. No, SSDs do NOT die in two weeks normally.

[Kai_null]

pfsense 2.4.0-RELEASE (amd64) does support UASP.

#camcontrol devlist
<st1000nm 0011="" pt0d="">at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0)

#camcontrol inquiry da0
pass0: <st1000nm 0011="" pt0d="">Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
pass0: Serial Number 000000123BA3
pass0: 400.000MB/s transfers

#usbconfig
ugen0.1: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen0.2: <vendor 0x05e3="" usb2.0="" hub="">at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (100mA)
ugen0.3: <vendor 0x04d9="" usb="" keyboard="">at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)
ugen0.4: <vli manufacture="" string="" vli="" product="">at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=ON (2mA)</vli></vendor></vendor></st1000nm></st1000nm> 

This is with this USB to SATA device and this HDD.

My next mission is to figure out how to test the actual speed it achieves.

Edit: build in speed test:

#diskinfo -tv /dev/da0p2

/dev/da0p2
	512         	# sectorsize
	996431888384	# mediasize in bytes (928G)
	1946156032  	# mediasize in sectors
	0           	# stripesize
	544768      	# stripeoffset
	121142      	# Cylinders according to firmware.
	255         	# Heads according to firmware.
	63          	# Sectors according to firmware.
	000000123BA3	# Disk ident.

Seek times:
	Full stroke:	  250 iter in   5.089351 sec =   20.357 msec
	Half stroke:	  250 iter in   3.598658 sec =   14.395 msec
	Quarter stroke:	  500 iter in   5.795468 sec =   11.591 msec
	Short forward:	  400 iter in   1.517583 sec =    3.794 msec
	Short backward:	  400 iter in   2.655790 sec =    6.639 msec
	Seq outer:	 2048 iter in   1.572585 sec =    0.768 msec
	Seq inner:	 2048 iter in   1.577754 sec =    0.770 msec

Transfer rates:
	outside:       102400 kbytes in   0.831469 sec =   123156 kbytes/sec
	middle:        102400 kbytes in   0.863127 sec =   118638 kbytes/sec
	inside:        102400 kbytes in   1.456835 sec =    70289 kbytes/sec