<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>found this at amazon</div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/ENCL-1P-Attached-Enclosure-Ethernet-KNDM-ENCL/dp/B0032HETIC">http://www.amazon.com/ENCL-1P-Attached-Enclosure-Ethernet-KNDM-ENCL/dp/B0032HETIC</a><br></div>
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Subject: [clue-tech] external hard drive caddies with ethernet not SATA<br>
interconnect?<br>
From: Jim Ockers <<a href="mailto://ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>><br>
Date: Fri, July 02, 2010 10:41 am<br>
To: CLUE technical discussion <<a href="mailto://clue-tech@cluedenver.org">clue-tech@cluedenver.org</a>><br>
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<font size="+1"><tt>Hi CLUEbies,<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <b>Do any of you know if anyone is making such a thing?</b> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> Jim<br> </tt></font> <pre class="moz-signature">--
Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" mce_href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net" target="_blank">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html" mce_href="http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html" target="_blank">http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html</a>
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