--On Friday, October 08, 2004 08:50:25 AM -0400 Ryan Leathers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the conventional wisdom these days Dan is that we have either file
level access or block level access being NAS and SAN respectively. So for
example, while a Fiber Channel SAN clearly uses its own network you might
also have an iSCSI SAN which shares the same IP/GigE network used for all
sorts of other traffic. SAN is less about the "dedicatedness" of the
network or protocol and more about the type of I/O - file or block.
A practical example might help...
A NAS might be selected for use by a mail server which needs tons of
storage but need not be fast.
A SAN might be selected for use by a database system where read/write
speeed is everything.
Interesting... thanks!
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Dan Monjar
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