"iSCSI killer" Native in Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 31, 2006 @02:37AM from the making-the-world's-storage-better dept.

jar writes "First came Fibre Channel, then iSCSI. Now, for the increasingly popular idea of using a network to connect storage to servers, there's a third option called ATA over Ethernet (AoE). Upstart Linux developer and kernel contributor Coraid could use AoE shake up networked storage with a significantly less expensive way to do storage -- under $1 per Gigabyte. Linux Journal also has a full description of how AoE works." Note that the LJ article is from last year; the news story is more recent.

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Re:More for business? by labratuk · 2006-07-31 12:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

If you buy several 400 GB drives and just connect them in an old PC thats on the network, aren't you accomplishing the same thing?

But do you get drive hotswap and near infinite expandability from that?

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