Re: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed?

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

Hi Julian and Russell,

Actually you can do better than that

http://www.pyxtechnologies.com/target.html

This is our soft target, using your v0.8 initiator, on a Dell 1GHz box,
running MicroSoft NT4+SP6.

IOmeter tells the story.

112MB/sec w/  67% reads and 33% writes with NTFS journal enabled.
 70MB/sec w/ 100% writes with NTFS journal enabled.
180MB/sec w/ 100% reads with NTFS journal enabled.

Since it is not my Initiator or my benchmark, I can only post the screen
shots.  I suspect they are a little hot but without more details about the
two items, I am left wondering.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Julian Satran wrote:

> at 100Mbs you could definitly use software and a plain NIC. You won't feel 
> iSCSI :-)
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> Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs?  Preferably at 100Mb speed?
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> Does anybody know of any current or coming iSCSI HBAs which show up (to 
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> legacy computer and run a totally diskless workstation at home.
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> However, since it will be a home computer, I'm willing to operate at 100Mb
> speed - I'm willing to eat the performance hit.  It seems to me that
> somebody could make an iSCSI HBA with a 100Mb interface and make it
> affordable for the home user (say, $50-$100).  Anybody know of such plans?
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