Hi all,

I have an Ultra 80 that's otherwise full (4x450, 4GB), but only has one
18GB disk. The easiest option for more space would be a second larger
drive from Ebay. But after reading more about iSCSI and Solaris 10... I
was wondering if a better long-term option would be to just put a GigE
card in and mount some space over the network?

The idea would be I could have larger/cheaper drives available over the
network than would ever fit in the U80... and theoretically they could
be faster as well (onboard U80 SCSI is 40MB/s?)


Comments or suggestions?

Thanks!

primealert@gmail.com wrote:

> I have an Ultra 80 that's otherwise full (4x450, 4GB), but only has one
> 18GB disk. The easiest option for more space would be a second larger
> drive from Ebay. But after reading more about iSCSI and Solaris 10... I
> was wondering if a better long-term option would be to just put a GigE
> card in and mount some space over the network?
> The idea would be I could have larger/cheaper drives available over the
> network than would ever fit in the U80... and theoretically they could
> be faster as well (onboard U80 SCSI is 40MB/s?)
> Comments or suggestions?

Not a bad idea. 'Cept youd probably need an offload engine iSCSI card,
something that talks to it on the other end, and the iSCSI array.
Infrastructure
costs. I guess it depends on what you are doing but an Addonics USB
card costs
about 15$ and you can hang 4 cheap external disks off it.
What are you trying to do with this extra disk space..?