Daniel Morgan apparently said,on my timestamp of 4/08/2004 12:22 AM:
>>
>> Wait until the IT damager decides to go to a NAS
>> because it's "better value"...
>
>
> The performance difference between SAN and NAS used to be of critical
> importance. I am not seeing enough difference these days to justify
> the huge difference in price. Is anyone having a different experience?
>
Of course there are exceptions. But IME, I've never seen a
network-based I/O system that can provide the performance
scalability of a channel I/O system. Don't forget that
a NAS uses one or more network connections presumably in a
single card.
Now I don't care how fast your Ethernet may be, it just by design
cannot cope with a busy I/O demand. Single-task, single-user
(the way "scalability is "measured" nowadays...) it may
show good results. Wait for the first collision...
--
Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 05:02:23 CDT
