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iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel vs. Direct Attached Disks?

Posted by Cliff on from the it's-all-about-the-performance dept.

mrscott asks: "Does anyone have any good, simple benchmarks about iSCSI performance in a SAN as it relates to fibre channel and direct attached storage? There's a lot of information out there about iSCSI TCP offload adapters that improve performance, but it's still hard to get a handle on even those stats without the original numbers for comparison. We're considering an iSCSI solution from Lefthand networks, but finding independent (and reasonably simple) numbers has proven somewhat difficult, even with the awesome power of Google behind me."

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  1. best speed to clusterf*ck... by mkcmkc · · Score: 3, Funny
    An alternative benchmark to consider: With old-fashioned direct attached SCSI, you can pretty much only screw up the disks one host at a time. With FC (and iSCSI I suppose), you can completely fuck up your hundred-million-dollar site with one mouse click. Now that's power!

    Mike

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    "Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."