[62739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Home Storage Area Network security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Sun Sep 21 18:29:26 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:27:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309211740330.3341-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi Seam
## On 2003-09-21 17:58 -0400 Sean Donelan typed:
SD>
SD> I received a few comments about file servers not serving files by default.
SD>
SD> There are a bunch of home SAN products on the market. They are designed
SD> to make it very easy for customers to set up and use a home storage area
SD> network.
SD>
IMHO you got the terminology wrong - these are nice NAS(Network
Attached Storage) devices - not SAN
SAN(as in Fiber channel or possibly iSCSI over GigE) is a touch expensive
for SOHO(typically starting off in the 5 digit (US$) range)
--
Thanks
Rafi
