Large external USB disks / enclosures

[gkontos]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of an external USB drive / enclosure that is capable of reading more than 2TB?

So far we have tested some jmicron solutions but they report 750GB on a 3TB drive. I have tested those on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE & 9.1-BETA1.

Thanks

 

[SirDice]

I have an Icy Dock with 4 * 500GB drives. I haven't tried any bigger drives but it works quite well. I like the fact it has eSATA and USB.

http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=33

 

[gkontos]

I have an Icy Dock with 4 * 500GB drives. I haven't tried any bigger drives but it works quite well. I like the fact it has eSATA and USB.

http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=33

If you configure this as jbod are you able to see the 4 different drives?

 

[SirDice]

Yes, it's currently configured as JBOD, I use ZFS on it. Unfortunately one the drives failed a few days ago and I need to replace it. But other than that it's been running fine.

 

[gkontos]

Yes, it's currently configured as JBOD, I use ZFS on it. Unfortunately one the drives failed a few days ago and I need to replace it. But other than that it's been running fine.

Great, we are planning to use it with ZFS also to transfer snapshots.