ob_kook Wrote: > MrC - don't worry about it! I know a bit about storage due to my job, > but am in no way an engineer and am always challenged by F/S issues and > networking. As I said, your post was helpful. > > What I meant by block level is that although SANmelody runs on Windows, > it does not put any kind of signature on the disk. It is served as raw > blocks. Therefore, it can create and serve disks to any operating > system (well, any that has either a Fibre Channel or an iSCSI driver > written for it) including Windows, Linux, various flavors of Unix, > Novell, Mac, and even VMware. Each of those can use virtual disks as if > you actually plugged a physical drive into it.
Would it be fair to describe it as a "lower cost, DIY, potentially higher performance" alternative to a standalone iSCSI system (such as Promise)? I haven't used iSCSI yet myself but it seems like a sound concept... RAID subsystems work great but are too expensive on a per-GB basis for home servers. -- seanadams _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
