NAS or SAN?

Wed Jan 19 09:40:01 PST 2005

If you're in the ATA-disk end of the storage market
(emphasizing price, capacity and flexibility more than
pure 15k rpm speed...) you may want to check out
www.coraid.com.  Its similar to iSCSI, but instead
of using TCP it uses a packet-over-ethernet scheme.

It is not as flexible or scalable as iSCSI, but its faster
and cheaper and easier to manage for smaller installations.

Its also Linux only at the moment, so if you need windows
its not a good fit for you.

	Neil

Rich LaReau wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> One of my customers is looking to expand their storage, and has asked 
> for some advice about what's available, etc.  I've used one of the new 
> Linksys Etherfast devices which seemed simple and robust, but was 
> wondering if anybody here has had more experience with other pure NAS 
> devices, something like NetApps or even an iSCSI SAN router like the one 
> from Sanrad?  Is it pretty much a price/storage/speed issue, or would 
> you pay more for something more "standard?"
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rich
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