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

[Richard Elling]

On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> Richard Elling <richard.elling at richardelling.com> writes:
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>> 
>>> Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get
>>> access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows
>>> direct USB passthrough.
>>> My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool
>>> running on his Linux system.
>> 
>> 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.
 -- richard

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