[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

[Guenther Alka]

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

- eSata for a single disk
- external SAS enclosures that supports up to 4 SAS/Sata disks per 
miniSAS Cable
- SAS expander  (similar to Sata port multiplier but a more frofessional 
solution) that supports hundreds of disks
- second NAS ex a HP microserver as a replication target for backups or
as an initiator source per FC, IB or iSCSI when needing more disks

You will not find either a good at all (on any platform) nor a Illumos 
supported Sata port multiplier solution.

Gea

Am 28.10.2015 um 22:45 schrieb Rich Teer:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
>> USB-3 is not supported yet.  I have not heard of anyone working on it.
> Ah, that is what I feared, but thanks for confirming it.
>
>> Consider ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD if you need USB-3 and ZFS within the next
>> year.
> Yep; I've already started pondering those options...
>
>> Also consider eSATA since that can be supported by OpenIndiana and is commonly
>> available on external drives.
> Agreed.  I was using eSATA with 3 single disk enclosures, and it worked well
> until the latter started failing (not the disk in at least one case), so I
> bought a 4-bay enclosure with eSATA and USB-3 connections.  The enclosure
> requires that the HBA supports SATA port multipliers, but unfortunately the
> LSI HBA I'm using doesn't.  I'm more than willing to give eSATA a try, if
> someone is happy to recommend a cheap enough HBA that is known to work.
>