Is there a device that can adapt an unused SATA port to USB 3?

[Keboose]

I have a NAS running on a raspberry Pi, and the speed is starting to get to me. I have a gigabit network; everything on my local network has gigabit adapters, and connects via cat6 to a gigabit router, yet the transfer speed to the Pi is about 6MB/s.

I want to upgrade to a Cubietruck, a larger computer, with both a gigabit ethernet and SATA 2 port. The problem is that my hard drive is a USB 3.0 RAID enclosure, and the Cubietruck only has USB 2.0 ports. Is there a device that can adapt the SATA port to USB 3, so I can get the most out of the enclosure?

 

[drtweak]

Never heard nor seen of a SATA to USB adapter. You'd be better off buying a USB 3.0 card for that PC, but if you plan on using the Cubitruck as the motherboard that won't be an option. You would be better off getting a smaller board with like a Celeron or a Atom that has a PCIe slot and/or USB 3.0.

 

[Keboose]

Thank you for the information. I am very intent on the Cubietruck, because it is supported by ArkOS, an in-development flavor of Arch Linux, built built for serving files, that is extremely user friendly and easy to set up, with an unfortunately small list of compatible hardware. The only small form-factor board available with a PCI slot is the hummingboard, and their description states that the 1Gbps port is limited to USB 2.0 speeds (470Mbps.) Worst of all, I have yet to see a board like these with USB 3.0 ports. Either the hardware is too expensive, or the tech just hasn't come that far yet, and that lets me down somewhat.