How does this rate as flamebait? He's got a valid point - no everybody flashes their $$$. Perhaps these guys learned something from the last bust - not everybody will be successful, so perhaps they're actually saving some of that $$$ in case things do go bust.
I guess I don't really see how it's cheaper that iSCSI? Sure, there's less overhead from the lack of TCP/IP, so you may not need as massive a network to drive it equally. But I've been under the understanding that iSCSI doesn't require SCSI drives, so you could build an iSCSI target out of the same machine/drives as an AoE host, correct?
For some applications, I think the lack of TCP/IP might be a benefit - less opportunity to hack. (Then again, I'd expect anybody deploying something like this or iSCSI would drop the few extra $$$ to build a parallel network that transports just storage.)
You're thinking Google.
(Almost funny how Google calls their offerings "beta", but they're generally pretty darn usable and stable, whilst Microsoft stuff probably ought to never come out of beta.)
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How does this rate as flamebait? He's got a valid point - no everybody flashes their $$$. Perhaps these guys learned something from the last bust - not everybody will be successful, so perhaps they're actually saving some of that $$$ in case things do go bust.
I guess I don't really see how it's cheaper that iSCSI? Sure, there's less overhead from the lack of TCP/IP, so you may not need as massive a network to drive it equally. But I've been under the understanding that iSCSI doesn't require SCSI drives, so you could build an iSCSI target out of the same machine/drives as an AoE host, correct? For some applications, I think the lack of TCP/IP might be a benefit - less opportunity to hack. (Then again, I'd expect anybody deploying something like this or iSCSI would drop the few extra $$$ to build a parallel network that transports just storage.)
You're thinking Google. (Almost funny how Google calls their offerings "beta", but they're generally pretty darn usable and stable, whilst Microsoft stuff probably ought to never come out of beta.)