RE: ATA over Ethernet

nice.....wipes chin...... but i have to ask myself how
reliable it is long term. the problem with using ide
drives is that most manufacturers nowdays say that the
ide drive is not supposed to be left on for more than
10 hours a day last i heard. the heat buildup kills
their life span was what i remember, but with my
memory that could be wrong. thats one of the reasons
ide drives are not the cats meow when it comes to high
end servers, that and speed for multiple simultaneous
access. anybody heard differently? it would be
interesting to find out if things have changed. the
sata drives were supposed to overcome that among other
things, the makers dont list any such limitations on
time used per day. i wonder if an sata version is in
the works? interesting :>

           kurt

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From: Joshua Kugler <joshua.kugler@uaf.edu>
Subject: ATA over Ethernet
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:09:50 -0800

For all you storage junkies:

Right now we're looking at putting a large RAID array
into production
for use
as a backup server (offsite). In researching and
pricing things out, I
came
across CoRaid's <http://www.coraid.com> ATA over
Ethernet (AoE)
systems.
I've been reading, and must say that I'm quite
intrigued.

While a server full of disks can (sometimes) be had
for less than
$2/GB, that
leads to issues when you want to upgrade. With the
CoRaid shelves, you
simply add another one. And on the other end, SCSI to
SATA systems are
well
over $2/GB. And well, Fibre Channel, that's just not
an option at this
point.

So...has anyone here had experience with these things?
 An article at
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3189760067.html gives a
nice overview
for the
curious. Comments?

j----- k-----

-- 
Joshua Kugler
CDE System Administrator
http://distance.uaf.edu/
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