[OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

[Richard Elling]

On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Hugh McIntyre wrote:

> On 3/30/12 8:41 AM, Richard Elling wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>> USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as
>>>> unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them.
>>> 
>>> Is the kind of size (3.5 TB) and scale mentioned above available in usb drives?
>>> Any chance of mirrored pairs as described?
>> 
>> Something like:
>> http://sharecenter.dlink.com/ShareCenter_Meet_The_Family
>> 
>> Kinda makes DIY look expensive.
> 
> This is probably a fine box, but it's it's own network fileserver running it's own OS and (presumably) filesystem.  Like ReadyNAS, QNAP boxes, etc.

yes, I was looking for the more traditional USB+RAID boxes, but they seem to be
disappearing from the store shelves (good riddance)
 -- richard


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