fiber channel at home?
ehnde
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I have a couple of qlogic fiber channel cards. Could I put one in my workstation, and another in a NAS box and have the NAS present storage over the FC?
If I can't do FC, what's the best way to go? iSCSI? I've got multiple NICs (gigE) in each computer, so I could always bond/aggregate those.
My workstation is Windows 8, and the NAS box has nas4free on it right now. I really like ZFS
If I can't do FC, what's the best way to go? iSCSI? I've got multiple NICs (gigE) in each computer, so I could always bond/aggregate those.
My workstation is Windows 8, and the NAS box has nas4free on it right now. I really like ZFS
Climb a mountain, tell no one.
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ehnde
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For anyone else that happens across this thread - I wound up just going with iSCSI. It's not like I'm going to saturate a 1G link in a home lab, right?
As best as I could determine, FC is just not something people do with a windows desktop for storage. Not saying it can't be done, but I couldn't figure it out.Climb a mountain, tell no one. -
gc8dc95
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I had a couple 4gb FC cards, but also decided not to mess with it. I am sure it can be done, but my studies are focused in other areas at the moment.