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"iSCSI killer" Native in Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:Reliability by Slashcrap · · Score: 0, Troll

    People often forget there is a considerable difference in the reliability of ATA drives versus SCSI. If you are going to use some sort of ATA based SAN be prepared for disk failures much sooner than if they were SCSI.

    I would just like to say something to the people who modded this "Interesting". You are killing Slashdot with your stupidity.

    Now crawl back under your rocks, you fucking imbeciles. That is all.

    PS. To the original poster - if you don't understand something, don't comment on it. Is that really too much to fucking ask?

    PPS. You still don't fucking get it do you? Well, this will blow your mind - you can run ATAoE with SCSI discs. And vice versa.