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<font size="+1"><tt>Hi CLUEbies,<br>
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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>
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html">http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html</a>
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