I've been thinking that something like the Vantec NexStar HX4 (http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/488) would be a pretty good, cheap backup solution for my photo collection. I would put 4 x 3TB drives in it and create 2 ZFS pools with mirrored disks.
Does anyone know if this enclosure, or something similar, is compatible with FreeBSD? Are there any potential problems that I should be aware of? Any advice would be much appreciated.
For what it's worth, I've been using a couple of Antec MX-1 enclosures on FreeBSD with single disk ZFS pools. They work perfectly if I connect via USB, but eSATA is unreliable.(Although I've found eSATA to be unreliable on Windows too.)
Does anyone know if this enclosure, or something similar, is compatible with FreeBSD? Are there any potential problems that I should be aware of? Any advice would be much appreciated.
For what it's worth, I've been using a couple of Antec MX-1 enclosures on FreeBSD with single disk ZFS pools. They work perfectly if I connect via USB, but eSATA is unreliable.(Although I've found eSATA to be unreliable on Windows too.)