iSCSI, twin-tailed disk, cheap-cheap fibre channel, ???

[Joseph Kubik]

What do you want from your "cheap" san?
-Joseph-

On 1/21/06, Jason Shein <jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 January 2006 12:06, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of a relatively inexpensive disk that can be
> > simultenously accessed (at block level) from multiple machines?
> >
> > I want this as a cheap way of simulating a SAN, I have SANs in the
> > office but I want similar capability on the cheap for home.
> >
> > Ideally the solution would be a drive pack similar to the external USB
> > drives you can buy these days with room for 2 HDD so that I can do
> > hardware or software RAID.
> >
> > If the total solution was < $1K excluding disks I could swing that.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> I don't know if this would suit your particular application, but I have used
> these for clients, and they work extremely well in a Windows environment.
> Supposedly they are developing drivers for Linux & Mac
>
> http://www.netgear.com/products/details/SC101.php
>
> Available at TigerDirect
> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1647989&sku=N100-2052
>
>
> One other option could be iSCSI Enterprise Target project at sourceforge
> http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
>
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