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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed?Bob, I think that we where referring to a different environment that uses 100Mb/s for home and can connect some old or new disks to some "older PC's" and get inexpensive arrays that can be shared. Julo
Julian, The stated environment was a diskless home system with disks remote. Home system means broadband attachment at less than 1.5 Mb/sec from the home to the remote iSCSI device, so it really doesn't matter how fast your local connection is (10 Mb/s or 100 Mb/s, you only get 1.5 Mb/s max) Been there, done that, it is not so hot, unless system, swap, and program are local, meaning not diskless. Dataless with NFS works okay, because all the operational functions run locally and only file access runs remotely, and that does not require iSCSI (and in fact works better without iSCSI for comparable technology). The stated environment was legacy, which means there is no administrative tool or specialized file system to allow the use of shared remote storage. I absolutely agree that native SCSI disks will perform better than IDE disks attached via local or remote iSCSI. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 4:36 PM To: Robert Snively Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu; owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu; 'Russell Lewis' Subject: RE: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed? Bob, I wonder if your opinion is based on real experience or prejudice. Our measurements indicate that an inexpensive box with SCSI disks performs BETTER than an IDE (typical) desktop drive using iSCSI over a 100MB/s connection (widely available for home use) - and that includes paging (usually marginal) and all the rest. Julo
My experience with diskless workstations is that they are limited by paging activity and background updating to really unacceptable performance, even in simple word-processing programs like frame maker doing medium sized books, and even on a local 10 Mb/s network. You are far better off running a workstation with
Remember too, that it is a rare broadband connection
In addition, there is nothing more frustrating than being
My view? iSCSI is not an appropriate protocol for
home Bob Snively > -----Original Message-----
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