On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Byron Jeff wr= ote: > This gets into the realm of Network Attached Storage: NAS. Fundamentally > the disks would be attached to a network file server of some type and the > multiple servers would access over the network. Physical channels Gigabit > ethernet, FibreChannel, and InfiniBand, with logical commands using iSCSI > for example. > > How to choose is always a matter of performance. Take a read of this > article to get an idea of the benfits and costs: > > http://www.petri.co.il/das-nas-san-storage-technologies.htm Thanks! --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .