On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:34:31PM -0800, Petro wrote: > Hey man, don't pull any punches, tell us how you *Really* feel. Well, iSCSI was developed and pushed by some networking guys with Ethernet in mind to get into the storage market without developing know how for a really efficient data link. So iSCSI has to handle lots of overhead: SCSI commands are encapsulated in IP, IP is encapuslated in Ethernet. This leads to bad performance (latency, throughput) compared to a Fibre Channel connection with the same link speed. Maybe the performance impact will become negligible with 10G or 100G Ethernet but at the moment we don't have these technologies available. Stephan
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