[clue-tech] Fwd: external hard drive caddies with ethernet not SATA interconnect?

[YES NOPE9]

How soon do you want this ?
What is your price range ?
Do you want GigaBit Ethernet ?

These might help ...
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1035588411
http://www.addonics.com/products/nas/NAS25HDU2.asp
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx      
$129   GuruPlug


Gus





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From: webmaster at graphmangraphics.com
Date: July 2, 2010 12:24:36 PM MDT
To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] external hard drive caddies with ethernet not  
SATA interconnect?
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found this at amazon
http://www.amazon.com/ENCL-1P-Attached-Enclosure-Ethernet-KNDM-ENCL/dp/B0032HETIC
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [clue-tech] external hard drive caddies with ethernet not SATA
interconnect?
From: Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net>
Date: Fri, July 02, 2010 10:41 am
To: CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>

Hi CLUEbies,

I am working on a project which requires modular storage in an  
industrial environment.  I am thinking about trying to use "external"  
hard drives for the data storage.  That is, the hard drives will be  
separate modules.  I'd like to use ethernet with iSCSI as the  
interconnect, so I can have many:many disk/server relationships, and  
also do software RAID over the targets.

I've used the Linux iSCSI enterprise target (iet) software and it's  
great.  I'm thinking that a disk with a little single board computer  
or other microcontroller, with ethernet and SATA interfaces, could run  
the iSCSI enterprise target and export the disk as a network block  
device on the ethernet.  Ethernet gets us a bunch of other spiffy  
advantages that we couldn't do with eSATA, firewire, USB, etc.

Do any of you know if anyone is making such a thing?  It doesn't have  
to be in an industrial enclosure, we can make that (it would just have  
power and ethernet connectors on the outside of the enclosure).   
Inside the enclosure would be the disk and the little computer,  
connected to each other via SATA.

We can make the system software for the little computer, including the  
web cgi etc. for management and SMART, I just need somewhere from  
which to source the hardware.  I looked around a bit and the only  
external drive enclosures I see are eSATA and the like.

Thanks,
Jim
  --
Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
Contact info: http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html

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