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Re: [Xen-users] Network based storage - NBD/AoE/iSCSI other?

To: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Network based storage - NBD/AoE/iSCSI other?
From: John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:08:26 -0400
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> the Coraid's 15-drive box is just a P4 SuperMicro mainboard, with two 
> SuperMicro 8-port SATA cards on a 3U SuperMicro case, and an IDE flashdrive 
> with Plan9 OS and its own software.  nothing hard to replicate...

And their performance numbers are relatively terrible, so you should be
able to do much better by building it on your own.  (Unless the bad
performance numbers are due to AoE itself, which I somewhat doubt, but
regardless, I was able to do about 30% better with iSCSI.)

John




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John Madden
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Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
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