"server grade" and "USB" shouldn't be used in the same sentence ...
we had a lot of "server grade" disks, bought as company branded USB containers and were using these as effectively long term data backup (not accessed all the time) these computers would occasionally just die, some of them would die if you plugged in a USB keyboard (or mouse, or any other USB device) some of these would die when the drives were waking up ... all these problems went away by taking all the drives and placing them inside a server with a basic SATA controller. I wouldn't go back to USB for anything serious, just my 2c Jon On 8 February 2013 15:53, Gary Driggs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > >> That is probably going to get torn down and a 4th disk added so I can run >> /export on RAIDZ2 and be able to take a 2 disk failure on a 4 disk system >> w/o loss of data > > Have you considered the option of installing the OS on a server grade USB > drive? > > -Gary > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/23508059-3f15f76a > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
