[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

Nikola M minikola at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 05:54:27 UTC 2015


On 11/ 3/15 08:52 PM, Rich Teer wrote:
> 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.

USB is not that good for high profile use anyway.
USB does not do checking of data during transwer (came to the light when 
using USB wireless adapters).
ZFS helps there with checksums, but for regular things I would stick to 
SAS and SATA.




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