On 2/25/2011 7:34 PM, Rich Teer wrote: > > One product that seems to fit the bill is the StarTech.com S352U2RER, > an external dual SATA disk enclosure with USB and eSATA connectivity > (I'd be using the USB port). Here's a link to the specific product > I'm considering: > > http://ca.startech.com/product/S352U2RER-35in-eSATA-USB-Dual-SATA-Hot-Swap-External-RAID-Hard-Drive-Enclosure
I have had mixed results with their 4 bay version. When they work, they are great, but we have had a number of DOA/almost DOA units. I have had good luck with products from http://www.addonics.com/ (They ship to Canada as well without issue) Why use USB ? You wll get much better performance/throughput on eSata (if you have good drivers of course). I use their sil3124 eSata controller on FreeBSD as well as a number of PM units and they work great. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
