Re: [zfs-discuss] USB 3.0 possibilities

2010-02-22 Thread David Magda
On Feb 22, 2010, at 13:20, Alex Blewitt wrote: It's worth noting that USB leeches control from the host computer, so even if the bandwidth is there, the performance might not be for several competing drives on the same bus, regardless of how big the number is printed. The other thing to c

Re: [zfs-discuss] USB 3.0 possibilities

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Blewitt
On Feb 22, 2010, at 18:02, Richard Elling wrote: On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:46 AM, A. Krijgsman wrote: Today I received a commecial offer on some external USB 3.0 disk enclosure. Since it was new to me I googled my way to wikipedia and found that the specs say USB 3.0 should have a 5 Gbit speed

Re: [zfs-discuss] USB 3.0 possibilities

2010-02-22 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:46 AM, A. Krijgsman wrote: > Today I received a commecial offer on some external USB 3.0 disk enclosure. > Since it was new to me I googled my way to wikipedia and found that the specs > say > USB 3.0 should have a 5 Gbit speeds capability. > > I visited newegg and found o

[zfs-discuss] USB 3.0 possibilities

2010-02-22 Thread A. Krijgsman
Today I received a commecial offer on some external USB 3.0 disk enclosure. Since it was new to me I googled my way to wikipedia and found that the specs say USB 3.0 should have a 5 Gbit speeds capability. I visited newegg and found out that a 2-port USB3.0 HBA is sold for 40$ and I also tried t