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From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:17:18 -0500
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And here's a quick summary of the difference.

EtherDrive storage blades use AoE the talk to block storage.
They are not nas boxes.
They are like sans only each drive can be seen on the network.
Each blade is a complete server with its own Ethernet interface.
The shelf has no common equipment; just power supply and a couple of
fans.
Blades can be raided across any number of shelves; you can
stripe 30 blades together if you wish while the shelf only
holds 10 blades.
You never have to spill a file system like using nas boxes;
just keep adding shelves and making your file system bigger.

I don't want to get into a commercial for EtherDrive storage blades,
so you might want to read the white paper.

On Mar 24, 2005, at 5:51 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> the devices people have mentioned so far are not,
> in fact, similar to coraid's
> if you read the white paper(s) on the coraid web site,
> you should begin to appreciate the difference
>