On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Guenther Alka wrote: > 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
[...] All good ideas, and I agree, probably better in a commercial environment. However (and I forgot to mention this), this is for my home server and I'm strapped for cash at the moment, so I'm looking for a *cheap*, reasonably performant solution. I'm currently using the external drive bay with a USB 2 connection, plus an eSATA drive (3-way mirror). My plan is to drop the eSATA drive (it's a 2 TB drive vs the 4 TB drives in the other drive bay), and stick to just the USB port and (for the time being) live with the presumably crappy performance that will bring. >From the feedback I've received here, it seems that for better performance (considering my budget) I will have to go the USB 3 route, which also means that I may have to abandon a Solaris-based OS. :-( In the immediate term, that probably means going the Linux + ZFS on LInux route. I'll buy a cheap ($30 or so) USB 3 card that is supported on Linux, and take it from there. (I can't believe that I just wrote that; my how times have changed!) -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss