[geeks] Apple vs. Sun

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:11:49PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Numerous studios are using Gig-e for sans.  Avid, I believe, is big into
> > doing that.
> 
> Ewwww.  That's not a storage area network.  That's storage gone awry.
> If your SAN doesn't look like a local device, it's not a SAN.  The SAN
> does -not- live on the LAN--that's the whole point.  Unless I'm
> misunderstanding you[1], what you're describing is an expensive NAS,
> which is nice in it's own right, but not for the same jobs.
> 
> [1] And, I really hope I'm not.  Why would you want the SAN components
>     interconnected with Ethernet--the absolute -worst- protocol for
>     something that must not have congestion problems.

First, I believe the idea is that you use special drivers rather than
just NFS mounting or SMB mounting, or whatever.  And it is possible that
a special Gig-E card is used rather than whatever is built in.  Also, I
must say that I've only heard of it on NT based machines.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd