Mike,
We have used 4 disks (2X80GB disks and 2X250GB disks) on USB and things
worked well.
Hot plugging the disks was not all that smooth for us.
Other than that we had no issues using the disks. We used this setup for
demos at the FOSS 2007 conference
at Bangalore and that went through several destructive tests for a
period of 3 days and the setup survied well.
(It never let us down in front of the customers :-)
The disks we used had individual enclosures, which was a bit clunky.
It would be nice to have a single enclosure for all the disks (which can
power the disks).
Thanks and regards,
Sanjeev.
Bev Crair wrote:
Mike,
Take a look at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8100808442979626078&q=CSI%3Amunich
Granted, this was for demo purposes, but the team in Munich is clearly
leveraging USB sticks for their purposes.
HTH,
Bev.
mike wrote:
I still haven't got any "warm and fuzzy" responses yet solidifying ZFS
in combination with Firewire or USB enclosures.
I am looking for 4-10 drive enclosures for quiet SOHO desktop-ish use.
I am trying to confirm that OpenSolaris+ZFS would be stable with this,
if exported out as JBOD and allow ZFS to manage each disk
individually.
Enclosure idea (choose one):
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/default.php/cPath/1_88
Would be looking to use 750GB SATA2 drives, or IDE is fine too.
Would anyone be willing to speak up and give me some faith in this
before I invest money into a solution that won't work? I don't intend
on hot-plugging any of these devices, just using Firewire (or USB, if
I can find a big enclosure) since it is a cheap and reliable
interconnect (eSATA seems to be a little too new for use with
OpenSolaris unless I have some PCI-X slots)
Any help is appreciated. I'd most likely use a Shuttle XPC as the
"head unit" for all of this - it is quiet and small. (I'm looking to
downsize my beefy huge noisy heavy tower with limited space
availability) - obviously bandwidth on the bus would be limited the
more drives sharing the same cable. That would be my only design
constraint.
Thanks a ton. Again, any input (good, bad, ugly, personal experiences
or opinions) is appreciated A LOT!
- mike
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