Question about USB 3.0 & Ubuntu

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 19:53 +0000, agents4jesus at gmail.com wrote:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2015-June/281329.html
> Did anyone get this question? I haven’t heard back from anyone ( sent
> it right at the end of the month, so it might not have been seen by
> people. 😉)
> On it’s topic, I’m beginning to wonder if Ubuntu doesn’t support
> USB3.0…

I was finding that I was unable to play video files from the SD card I
use in my car windscreen camera, on my desktop computer, I suspected
because the USB 2.0 connections were too slow.

My solution was:-

Search on ebay for a PCIe USB 3.0 expansion board, with an internal USB
header, buy it, install it and confirm that it was working.

Search on ebay again, for one of those flash card readers with sockets
for SD, microSD, XD, Compact Flash etc. etc. that fits in a front panel
drive bay, and also is a USB 3.0 device. Install. Connect to the header
on the PCIe board.

I can now play video from the camera SD card.

Conclusion? Ubuntu supports USB 3.0.

Footnote:-
I'm actually using Mint 17, which is Ubuntu with the decent desktop.

Dave