USB3 to SATA

[jbartlett]

Has anyone tried one of these adapters yet with UNRAID?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400542

 

ETA: Rats, only supports 2.5" drives

[garycase]

...  Rats, only supports 2.5" drives

 

Haven't tried one of these, but clearly they don't "really" only support 2.5" drives.  They're designed to plug into a 2.5" drive and provide power from the USB bus ... which isn't able to provide enough power for a 3.5" drive.

 

But if you simply used the data portion via a short SATA extension like this:

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=7634&catargetid=320013720000066114&cadevice=c&kpid=107634&gclid=CND7yv26r8YCFUMjgQod2X8DdA

 

... and then connected a SATA power cable to the drive from your PC or via an external power adapter [e.g. http://www.amazon.com/AGT-External-Power-Supply-Adapter/dp/B00B42UTFO ], the unit would work fine with a 3.5" drive.

 

... Whether or not UnRAID would work with this (which is your basic question) I simply don't know.

 

 

[trurl]

I expect unRAID or indeed any computer would simply see this as a USB drive. Not usable in the array but could probably be mounted outside the array.

[garycase]

Agree.    There's been some discussion about possibly allowing USB3 drives to be included in the array, but I don't believe that's likely to happen anytime soon (for good reason -- including such an easily removable drive in the array simply invites too many opportunities for catastrophic mistakes).