I think I'm going to grab one of these fancy 5-disk USB 3 enclosures I
see on the Internet. ;-)
Most of the consumer grade units seem to have one or more issues (no NCQ
depth more than 1, loud/bad fans, hard to get a real JBOD mode, JBOD
mode eats serial numbers making ID hard).
I think I settled on the TERRAMASTER D5-300 USB3.1
I'll post back results when it arrives and I get done swearing and
cursing during the replacement.
sean
Performance, unsurprisingly is way better.
Some irritating XHCI initialization was noted on reboots:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261912
I am currently moving stuff around but it is fun to be able to put my
old 2 disk USB 2 array into the 5 disk USB 3 array and have ZFS just
flat out DO THE RIGHT THING. Its fantastic.
Another thing I noticed is the lack of support by this vendor for SATA
NCQ. Not surprising, but SUPER irritating. The drives I'm using
definitely supported this in the their old USB 2 enclosures, but the
only thing I can do is yell at the vendor.
sean
