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 out that a 2-port USB3.0 HBA is sold for 40$ and > > I also tried to search a USB 3.0 switch/hub, however did not find any yet.
Not surprising... it is still very new. > Since the small formfactor mobile drives could even receive power over their > USB cable; > this could be a interesting addtional feature. This was true of USB 1.0 also. Quite a few USB 2.0 drives are powered from USB (a good thing :-) > Could it be an interesting solution to build a very cheap storage area > network? > ( Ofcourse ZFS in the middle to manage the shares. ) Or is this wishfull > (e.g. bad) thinking? It all depends on if the USB disk honors cache flush commands. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance http://nexenta-atlanta.eventbrite.com (March 15-17, 2010) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
