On 3 Nov 2015 19:53, "Rich Teer" <r...@richjen.com> wrote: > > 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!)
You might be better off with a FreeNAS setup instead of Linux+ZFS, as long as you don't mind configuring it via a browser interface ... We have 3 of the beasties now running in production environments and they even have ZFS boot (and they don't forget how to do ZFS when they get a new kernel) _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss