[SLL] Rant: ATA-over-Ethernet 0x88a2

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:14 -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> 
> Thus then the question arises, what *WOULD* you pay for one of these 
> things? For me, $50 sounds a bit high, but a reasonable price
> nontheless.

It would have to be commodity priced.  This isn't something enterprise
quality nor should it be relied upon as such.  There are some companies
that are selling a network drive appliance.  Just a box around a
harddrive that runs an embedded OS to setup a FTP/SMB server to access
the drive.  Also can access through firewire.  I'm sure you could just
add a larger drive to the enclosure.  Just got to convince these people
to sell the enclosure w/out the drive already in it.

Then again, taking something like openfiler (www.openfiler.org) and
putting it on a flash media that you can boot a little enclosure from,
and then just add user's drive, you could market a pretty neat little
OSS network storage device that is REALLY open because you can add your
own harddrive to it.  $50 or so for the enclosure and software, more for
support.  Seems pretty kickass to me.

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