Thunderbolt or USB3 for storage network

[leejolley]

Hi. I'm looking to build a Hyper-V 2012 R2 lab environment using two Mac Mini's. I want to create a SAN from the SSD's in each box and thought Thunderbolt Networking would be ideal for a 10Gbps storage network and having production traffic over the 1Gbps NICs. However Intel only seem to be providing a Windows driver for Thunderbolt2. Hopefully Apple will release an updated Mac Mini with Thunderbolt2 soon but I was wondering if anyone has done this before and it's been proven to work? I'm curious if USB 3 ports can be utilised as well?

Thanks

Lee

[anton (staff)]

Running storage-over-IP using Thunderbolt ports is fine (that's what I do on a routine basis as I have Mac laptops running Windows for years). However doing the same with USB (even USB 3.0) is a joke because latency kills the whole thing