[volunteergrid2-l] Solving hardware problems with software

[Brad Rupp]

On 2/14/2011 11:02 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> I also learned that AOE is cool and works very well.  If I wanted to
> build a cheap, moderate-performance high-capacity SAN on old hardware
> it would be the way to go, because you could scale it out to many
> disks in many machines.  Plenty of redundancy would be crucial,
> though, because adding that many links to the chain will increase
> failures.

I am not familiar with AOE, but I am very familiar with iSCSI.  I have 
built several SANs using iSCSI.  I'm going to have to spend a bit of 
time looking at the differences between the two.

Brad