On Sep 10, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On a quick look around, ATA over Ethernet seems to be a hardware/software protocol that requires hardware that is currently only available from only one place. $295 for a one-disk evaluation kit (disk not inculded) is just a little steep for the home casual experimenter. Factor of 10 more expensive than a single-disk Firewire or USB connection kit.
More detailed research would yield the fact that Linux systems can act as either an ATA-over-Ethernet host or target. So, you can export local storage on your linux system as an AoE target that another linux system can use as an AoE device. It's actually pretty neat, and gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of designing less expensive storage networks.
It is, however, only really suitable for storage applications. If you really want to squeeze ultimate performance out of ethernet, and existing protocols have too much overhead for you, write your own protocol. :) Though, I'd wager UDP/IP would be "good enough" for most cases.
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