[SLL] Rant: ATA-over-Ethernet 0x88a2

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 21:26 -0400, Russell Evans wrote:
> OK I'll bite, would you care to qualify this? If you're talking ATA
> drives well  http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ 
> http://www.emc.com/products/systems/clariion_cx700.jsp
> are just a couple of vendor's ATA hardware and probably
> capture a bit of what ever enterprise means at the moment. If your
> talking big budget enterprise well its not really surprising that they
> would spend more for FC disks and wouldn't consider an ATA solution is
> it? 
> 
> So what makes it enterprise quality or not? What is your criteria? 

It isn't the drive that concerns me, it is the surrounding hardware and
protocols to drive the disk.  I DO consider ATA (SATA that is) drives
capable of enterprise level systems.  I work on them and sell them by
the ton.  SATA disks on a 3ware controller, SATA disks in an Xserv, SATA
disks on a raid box with Fibre out, these are all OK give that they have
a hardware RAID device managing the disks and the units just export RAID
LUNs to another system or the OS on the box.  These are completely
different than an RJ45 cable plugging into an ATA disk and letting some
system somewhere on the network try to make a volume out of them and
manage the volume when a disk or network device go kaput.  Big
difference.

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