Your options are mainly with Solarish systems
- Oracle Solaris with USB 3 support
but the following options are far better, faster or more robust to
connect disks
- eSata for a single disk
- external SAS enclosures that supports up to 4 SAS/Sata disks per
miniSAS Cable
- SAS expander (similar to Sata port multiplier but a more frofessional
solution) that supports hundreds of disks
- second NAS ex a HP microserver as a replication target for backups or
as an initiator source per FC, IB or iSCSI when needing more disks
You will not find either a good at all (on any platform) nor a Illumos
supported Sata port multiplier solution.
Gea
Am 28.10.2015 um 22:45 schrieb Rich Teer:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
USB-3 is not supported yet. I have not heard of anyone working on it.
Ah, that is what I feared, but thanks for confirming it.
Consider ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD if you need USB-3 and ZFS within the next
year.
Yep; I've already started pondering those options...
Also consider eSATA since that can be supported by OpenIndiana and is commonly
available on external drives.
Agreed. I was using eSATA with 3 single disk enclosures, and it worked well
until the latter started failing (not the disk in at least one case), so I
bought a 4-bay enclosure with eSATA and USB-3 connections. The enclosure
requires that the HBA supports SATA port multipliers, but unfortunately the
LSI HBA I'm using doesn't. I'm more than willing to give eSATA a try, if
someone is happy to recommend a cheap enough HBA that is known to work.
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