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  1. Re:oh, whatever by aderusha · · Score: 1 · on iSCSI for Mac OS X?

    from the link you've provided, i find one SAN machine - the sancube, which actually makes a SAN on firewire.

    except the max capacity is 720GB and it only supports a maximum of 4 hosts.

    hardly a SAN...

  2. Re:IEEE 1394a by groovemaneuver · · Score: 1 · on Sharing a SCSI Drive Between Two Boxes Using Linux?

    Is there currently support for this sort of setup in Linux/BSD?

    Personally, I have not seen a 1394 enclosure w/ more than one port with the exception of the SANCube. But this seems to be a Mac-entric device.

    I suppose I should stop posting and just do some research...

  3. Re:FireCube? by flux4 · · Score: 1 · on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network?

    I retail this product. It's called the SANcube. A Windows-Compatible variant is also available, but it appears to be a single-user Raid 0 only.

  4. SANcube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network?

    SANcube by MicroNet.

  5. Overkill for household use. by akgunkel · · Score: 1 · on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network?

    A true SAN is probably overkill for household use unless your hobies include rendering and editing Pixar-like shorts with your wife/girlfriend/dog/hamster working in tandem on one or more other workstations. That's about the only thing I can think of that a home user could use that kind of storage and speed for. Or you want to build some kind of 4 pc DIY TiVo with shared storage. Of course I don't know why you would.

    I'm agreeing with Billco. If you've got a Switched 100Mb Ethernet LAN in your house (Since you're toying with building a DIY SAN, I'm sure you do), just build a fileserver. The cost, effort and extra cable spaghetti just don't seem to be worth it. If you build a server, it can do a hell of a lot more than just locally share files too. (DHCP, LDAP, E-mail, HTTP.... ) And considering what you'd spend on a SAN implementation, you could get a pretty nice server for your home.

    As questionlp pointed out, if you've got Macs, the SANcube is in a price range that's manageable for the hard core (employed) geek.

    Remember, use the right tool for the job. Don't kill flies with a bazooka.

  6. Woah! This isn't _that_ great. by hurst · · Score: 4 · on USB 2.0 Spec Is Final - Up To 480 MB/s


    Take a look at this little article on USB 2.0 and this one.

    I can say that firewire is here and it works now, beautifully. Why should I wait for manufacturers to develop and implement USB 2.0 mobos and devices? For a measly extra 80Mb/s? I'll wait for firewire to go to 800Mb/s later this year.

    What? No firewire devices besides camcorders? My favorite firewire devices are the sancube and this portable firewire raid array.

    Now they (hard drive manufacturers in particular) just need to make some native firewire devices, bridges are just so... inelegant.