Do-It-Yourself Network Storage Components
Daniel J. Worden · Apress eBooks · 2004
In the first few chapters, I took you through a tour of the basic technologies that are incorporated into any storage network. Hard disk technology, whether SCSI, Fibre Channel, or ATA/IDE, works under certain principles. Network communications, whether a SCSI command set or an FTP transfer over Gigabit Ethernet, handle packets using protocols and have transmission characteristics that define how fast and how far bits can move down the wire. Logical Volume Management and RAID strategies help you manage risk of failure and administer resources more or less efficiently. Add to that mix a diverse set of clients and abstract the storage away from a dedicated server, and voilá, you have yourself a Networked Attached Storage solution.