WTF is I scuzzy?

[Matt_TPrice]

Linus mentioned in his last video where he reviewed the lian li case that he used a nas with I Scuzzy to run his games?

 

Could someone please explain how this works.

[TheSLSAMG]

iSCSI

 

 

In computing, iSCSI (ⁱ/aɪˈskʌzi/ eye-skuz-ee), is an acronym for Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities.

By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances. iSCSI can be used to transmit data over local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), or the Internet and can enable location-independent data storage and retrieval.

The protocol allows clients (called initiators) to send SCSI commands (CDBs) to SCSI storage devices (targets) on remote servers. It is a storage area network (SAN) protocol, allowing organizations to consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts (such as database and web servers) with the illusion of locally attached disks.^[1]

Unlike traditional Fibre Channel, which requires special-purpose cabling, iSCSI can be run over long distances using existing network infrastructure.^[2] iSCSI was pioneered by IBM and Cisco in 1998 and submitted as draft standard in March 2000.^[3]

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI

[MatheusSanzo]

iSCSI

Sexy.

[Matt_TPrice]

iSCSI

 

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI

I came here to avoid wikipedia...................................................................................................................................................

[TheSLSAMG]

I came here to avoid wikipedia...................................................................................................................................................

An ellipsis is only three periods. Putting many more than necessary is a bit overboard.

 

As for the issue at hand, from what I know, it's like a media server that you can access files on, but I am unsure on how to set it up or use it. 

[jscho]

Linus mentioned in his last video where he reviewed the lian li case that he used a nas with I Scuzzy to run his games?

 

Could someone please explain how this works.

 

I don't know much about it, but I think it's a remote way for accessing servers. You can 'iSCSI' into a server and remotely manage it and do general shit, I dunno. Fairly sure it's something like that, but seriously Wikipedia is the best place to search for it's meaning.

[Matt_TPrice]

An ellipsis is only three periods. Putting many more than necessary is a bit overboard.

 

As for the issue at hand, from what I know, it's like a media server that you can access files on, but I am unsure on how to set it up or use it

I am definitely aware of the fact it is a way to transer data. I am just curious of how a game could be ran through that medium. I always thought you had to intstall it for it to work.

[Matt_TPrice]

I don't know much about it, but I think it's a remote way for accessing servers. You can 'iSCSI' into a server and remotely manage it and do general shit, I dunno. Fairly sure it's something like that, but seriously Wikipedia is the best place to search for it's meaning.

I know what it is. I just want to know how a game could be ran through it.

[TheSLSAMG]

I know what it is. I just want to know how a game could be ran through it.

"WTF is I scuzzy?"

 

WTF = What the f***

 

You asked what it was in the title of the topic, but I need to respect the fact that you knew.

[jscho]

I know what it is. I just want to know how a game could be ran through it.

 

So like have all your game files stored on the NAS and streamed to your PC like a hard drive? I wouldn't know. If Linus did it, I'm sure you could. As long as you have a decent wired network, you could try it out.

 

"WTF is I scuzzy?"

 

WTF = What the f***

 

You asked what it was in the title of the topic, but I need to respect the fact that you knew.

 

That's what I thought too.

[Matt_TPrice]

So like have all your game files stored on the NAS and streamed to your PC like a hard drive? I wouldn't know. If Linus did it, I'm sure you could. As long as you have a decent wired network, you could try it out.

 

 

That's what I thought too.

 

 

"WTF is I scuzzy?"

 

WTF = What the f***

 

You asked what it was in the title of the topic, but I need to respect the fact that you knew

Im sorry. I know how to use google and wikipedia. I used those options before coming here. I was just looking for more real world terms. I apologize, I should have specified.

[jscho]

Im sorry. I know how to use google and wikipedia. I used those options before coming here. I was just looking for more real world terms. I apologize, I should have specified.

 

No need to apologise. I simple misunderstanding

iSCSI is a rather advanced and complex networking tool.

[Matt_TPrice]

No need to apologise. I simple misunderstanding

iSCSI is a rather advanced and complex networking tool.

Seems like a cool way to just have an ssd and still be able to do some gaming.

[RelentlessAF]

 

 

Im sorry. I know how to use google and wikipedia. I used those options before coming here. I was just looking for more real world terms. I apologize, I should have specified.

You can have Steams default installation path be on the ISCSI and execute the files from it in order to play your games. I guess Linus probably has quite a lot of games and cannot fit them on his hard drive. My Steam library takes up 636 GB of storage and that's 96 games.

[Matt_TPrice]

You can have Steams default installation path be on the ISCSI and execute the files from it in order to play your games. I guess Linus probably has quite a lot of games and cannot fit them on his hard drive. My Steam library takes up 636 GB of storage and that's 96 games.

 

Thanks a lot man. Quite the library you have. Im guessing you use ISCSI too?

[RelentlessAF]

Thanks a lot man. Quite the library you have. Im guessing you use ISCSI too?

 

Nah, I'm so bad at networking and setting up Ftp's and the what-not I do have a relatively simple FTP for storing important files on an SSD connected to my router but my games are stored on my HDD and in order to save space I uninstall the ones I haven't been playing for awhile

[Atlantisman]

iSCSI is just a method of access files across a network. Windows won't let you install a game(or a program) to a network share normally(using SMB/NFS or a standard protocol), but because how how iSCSI works windows thinks its a local hard drive and shows up as a local hard drive, even though it may be on a computer remotely.

 

This is a very common protocol for storage servers to use. 

[penance]

iSCSI has its uses and is very similar to what you would see with a mapped network drive. However by using iSCSI you gain some performance improvements over a mapped drive by reducing the layers you are going through to access the file path. There are many ways to do this some people use a NAS and utilize software iSCSI through windows. You can also do a hardware iSCSI connection which would allow you to see those targets on boot so you could technically install a OS to a iSCSI since your operating system will see it as a essentially a attached drive.

 

Beware there are downsides to ISCSI the one major disadvantage is that typically you do not want to mount an iSCSI target to multiple devices. The way it works is that when you use an ISCSI target the OS sees this is a drive however the protocol does not understand file locks therefore if more than one system was to access the same file on the target you could have corruption. If you are going to be using this for data that would be shared across multiple devices then you would want to use a share drive or some other format and not an ISCSI target. When you here people say they are using this for file sharing they are mounting the targets on a server then using the server to share the files through some other means of connections such as a windows file share or Samba.

[EpicGeekonFire]

I have a few SCSI drives. But no controller to use dem. 

[penance]

Be sure not to confuse a SAS drive (SCSI) with iSCSI as one is a protocol and the other a type of drive. You do not have to have SCSI drives to use iSCSI.

[EpicGeekonFire]

Be sure not to confuse a SAS drive (SCSI) with iSCSI as one is a protocol and the other a type of drive. You do not have to have SCSI drives to use iSCSI.

So I have SAS Drives? 

[penance]

So I have SAS Drives? 

Same thing but not the same as iSCSI.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Linus mentioned in his last video where he reviewed the lian li case that he used a nas with I Scuzzy to run his games?

 

Could someone please explain how this works.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/115704-an-introduction-to-san-and-storage-networking/

 

They have storage in a separate machine on their network that appears like a local disk on their chosen computer. That is what games are installed to.