chrisla Wrote: > As someone who maintains hundreds of terabytes of SAN storage, sorry > to burst Netgear's bubble, but they are both NAS devices. > > SAN is generally defined that it presents the storage to the server as > a block device (it thinks it is a local drive) and connects (in > general) via Fibre Chanel, not Ethernet or Wireless. There are plenty of iSCSI SAN devices that use Ethernet. Looking at the Netgear site, they claim the device offers block level access and that volumes are local, so I'd say it qualifies as a SAN, although it must certainly be one of the lowest priced SAN devices available.
My biggest reservation is that they claim it can only be used with Windows, so if you ever planned on running a Linux or Apple SlimServer, you'd be out of luck. An NAS will do all you need for the purposes of running SlimServer. But unless you plan on using the NAS for other storage needs such as video or computer backups, you'd probably do just as well to simply replace your current drive with a larger one. You can get an awful lot of music on a single 400 or 500GB drive. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18311 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
