Seagate Kinetic Open Storage - Bigfoot

[eugenius]

Here's the link:

 

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/seagate-kinetic-solution-a-look-at-the-rausch-bigfoot-object-storage-solution-1232657

 

The idea is: just make the HDD have a dual 1gbit ethernet connection. Genius! Can't wait for the 24 bay extensible Smallfoot.

[Askew]

I read that as Kitchen lol (this forum used to get uber kitchen sales spam)

[Phllips]

I read that as Kitchen lol (this forum used to get uber kitchen sales spam)

Better than indian matchmaking

[eugenius]

(Dual) Gbit ethernet has gotten so cheap (and old) that it just makes sense to add it to hdd's directly - and it's not like it's limiting the speed of a mechanical drive. Throw caching ssd's in the server and use ethernet switches that scale easily to hundreds of ports to have an extensible, easy to use storage solution.

 

Meanwhile, 10gbe continues to be ignored. Supermicro can sell you a 450$ lga2011 server motherboard with IPMI, a LSI RAID controller and two Intel 10gbase-t ports and the so called high end motherboard manufacturers are figuring out new and more colorful ways to sell you nothing.

[alpenwasser]

Yeah, I came across this a while ago and discussed it with @MG2R,

I think it is a very interesting approach indeed and am definitely

looking forward to what this concept will bring in the future.

Although, last I checked it seemed like this wasn't going to be

available for normal consumers for a long time, if ever.

[wpirobotbuilder]

(Dual) Gbit ethernet has gotten so cheap (and old) that it just makes sense to add it to hdd's directly - and it's not like it's limiting the speed of a mechanical drive. Throw caching ssd's in the server and use ethernet switches that scale easily to hundreds of ports to have an extensible, easy to use storage solution.

 

Meanwhile, 10gbe continues to be ignored. Supermicro can sell you a 450$ lga2011 server motherboard with IPMI, a LSI RAID controller and two Intel 10gbase-t ports and the so called high end motherboard manufacturers are figuring out new and more colorful ways to sell you nothing.

Please link it. I am interested.

 

Not sure how KOS will affect the market. It places an increased burden on networking, since you need more ethernet ports to access it. On the other hand it gives remote users access to SCSI devices directly, which could be interesting.

 

I work in virtualized storage, so this is pretty foreign to me. I do see the potential, though.

 

Yeah, I came across this a while ago and discussed it with @MG2R,

I think it is a very interesting approach indeed and am definitely

looking forward to what this concept will bring in the future.

Although, last I checked it seemed like this wasn't going to be

available for normal consumers for a long time, if ever.

A box full of nothing but KOS drives, and an appliance that can set up a networked RAID array with remote drives?

[eugenius]

http://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-X9srh-Lga2011-Server-Motherboard/dp/B00B22CZPS

 

, I've seen it for 450$ before. You can bet you're going to find them even cheaper once x99 hits.