Re: hardware

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

shawn wilson put forth on 4/21/2011 6:29 AM:
> first, i'm curious if (or how much) read and access speed difference
> there are with an emc or hp iscsi san vs a *nix box with an iscsi card
> and similar hardware? i haven't been able to figure out how to get the
> same access speed as an emc nx4 i used to have access to. however i
> was thinking that this was due to sas vs sata and iscsi hardware vs
> not and limitation of my skill. i'm also curious whether bsd would be
> better suited for this sense they have a better network stack?

Take a look at Openfiler:  http://www.openfiler.com/

It's purpose built for your needs, and open source.

-- 
Stan