[Cialug] SANs/NASes

[David Champion]

If you're just doing 1 server to 1 NAS, you can use a 10gb "direct attach"
cable and don't need the switch. They plug into a SFP slot like a fiber
transceiver.

-dc


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:20 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I’m looking into building my own for a fun project. I am checking into
> > parts, but thinking of creating a nas out of an old pc box and mod it to
> > hold lots of 1Tb+ hard drives if there isn’t room enough already. Then
> add
> > a raid card, make sure the NIC is gigabit, and I was thinking maybe I
> could
> > add a fibre channel card to make it more like a real san if the cards
> > exist? 😊
> >
>
> I wouldn't bother with Fibre Channel, unless you're looking to get a job in
> a large enterprise. Save that cash for a 10G NIC and switch (which are
> getting more affordable daily) as the major limiter of NAS performance is
> the network.
>
> Technologies like iSCSI, NFS, etc. is what I'd be looking at, plus things
> like OpenStack Cinder and Swift.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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