As I was tired of being limited to just 2 USB ports, I picked up the Inateck RedComets U21 20Gbps on Prime Day for $31.99 plus tax.
Specs
- 2 lanes of PCIe 2.0/3.0/4.0 (3.0 or 4.0 required for full speed)
- Max combined throughput 16 Gbps
- 10 Gbps dedicated port
- USB-A
- 10 Gbps split between
- 2 x USB-A
- 2 x USB-C
Add USB Card
- Shutdown containers and VMs
- Turn off the server
- Install the USB card
- I installed it above the 2.5" drive bays in the back in Riser 3 (Slot 6)
- Turn on the server
- Fix fan speed
- apt-get install ipmitool
- ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.X -U root -P <password> raw 0x30 0xce 0x00 0x16 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00
- response:
- 16 05 00 00 00
- Shutdown the VM you want to add it to
- Add the USB Card to a VM
- Select your VM -> Hardware -> Add -> PCI Device
- Select Raw Device -> Device: ASM2142/ASM3142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
- Check All Functions
- Add
- Start the VM
- Check that it is working
- lsusb -t
Test a USB hard drive
- plug in the USB hard drive
- determine what drive letter it is:
- ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
- Mount it
- sudo mount -m /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup-plus
- Error: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
- sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse
- sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup-plus -t exfat-fuse
Appendix
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