Coraid Network Storage
| AoE: The FAST & inexpensive alternative to iSCSI & Fibre Channel SAN! Coraid EtherDrive® Storage Products connect to the network using standard Ethernet. With EtherDrive Storage you can create a fast shared storage system from a few Terabytes to multiple Petabytes for under US$0.64 per Gigabyte. EtherDrive® Storage Appliances are available with 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface when applications require maximum storage access speed. Coraid's simple Logical Volume Manager appliance is also available for EtherDrive storage, allowing a scaleable pool of physical storage to be virtualized into a Logical Volumes of any size. EtherDrive® Storage Products use the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) storage protocol. AoE is a simple, non-routable protocol designed specifically to transport SATA disk commands over Ethernet. EtherDrive products offer internal RAID (0, 1, 5, 10), hot-swappable disks, and support standard SATA disk drives. AoE delivers a simple, high performance, low cost alternative to iSCSI and FibreChannel for networked block storage by eliminating the processing overhead of TCP/IP. AoE is natively supported in Linux 2.6.11 and beyond. |
