Does pfSense support UASP ( USB Attached SCSI ) (updated: yes)
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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. -
How did you manage that?
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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:
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Well then you could perhaps RMA the faulty SSD, instead of inventing whacky things. No, SSDs do NOT die in two weeks normally.
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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