[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

[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.

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