[geeks] industrial USB flash drives, and other solid state Solaris storage

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Apr 25, 2008, at 09:42 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> Date: 2008/04/20 Sun AM 02:27:38 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] industrial USB flash drives, and other solid  
>> state   Solaris  storage
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>> It's a neat idea, but if I used USB I'd just use one drive, and only
>> if I could make it internal.
>
> Obviously you can on the T105, but for other systems, I just had a  
> thought - I wonder if anyone makes a PCI or even PCI-Express add-in  
> cards that have multiple USB ports *internal* - it would be  
> interesting to have, say, four internal USB connectors (for USB  
> thumbdrives), each with their own controllers on an add-in card.  
> That would mean you could take four 16 Gig USB drives[0] and have up  
> to a 64 Gig (or so) storage pool, and with seperate controllers, you  
> could go to some fun RAID solutions (like RAID 5 or even a cool  
> thumper-like ZFS storage pool [1];^)...

I can just see this card with a dozen USB headers on it... :)

You know, just for silliness... 7 port hub, 7 cheap USB flash drives,  
RAIDZ with two spares...

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com