On Apr 1, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Hugh McIntyre wrote: > On 3/30/12 8:41 AM, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> On Mar 30, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>>> USB drives tend to ignore cache flush commands, which can appear as >>>> unreliable disks. Shouldn't be much of a problem if you rarely plug them. >>> >>> Is the kind of size (3.5 TB) and scale mentioned above available in usb >>> drives? >>> Any chance of mirrored pairs as described? >> >> Something like: >> http://sharecenter.dlink.com/ShareCenter_Meet_The_Family >> >> Kinda makes DIY look expensive. > > This is probably a fine box, but it's it's own network fileserver running > it's own OS and (presumably) filesystem. Like ReadyNAS, QNAP boxes, etc.
yes, I was looking for the more traditional USB+RAID boxes, but they seem to be disappearing from the store shelves (good riddance) -- richard -- DTrace Conference, April 3, 2012, http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf ZFS Performance and Training [email protected] +1-760-896-4422 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
