[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

[Jonathan Adams]

On 3 Nov 2015 19:53, "Rich Teer" <rich at 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)