On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Rich Teer wrote:
Hi all,
Hopefully a very quick question here: is USB3 supported yet, and if so, what
2+ port cards are recommended? I'm specifically talking about using ZFS on
external hard drives, and am thinking of using SmartOS if that helps. The
USB card would be going into a PCIe slot in my Ultra 20 M2. (I'm currently
using one of the on-board USB2 interfaces, but the 480 Mb/s speed is killing
me!)
USB-3 is not supported yet. I have not heard of anyone working on it.
I am also using USB-2 backup drives with ZFS (for over 6 years
already) for backups. I take care to constrain the amount of data
which needs to be backed up and use compression so USB-2 still works
for me.
Consider ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD if you need USB-3 and ZFS within the
next year.
Also consider eSATA since that can be supported by OpenIndiana and is
commonly available on external drives.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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