Osx globalsan1/9/2023 What's the percentage of Mac users that own a NAS? I'd probably say the percentage is rather small (though I have no idea), If apple does not see any benefit to increase sales, or sell a given product I don't think they'll want to invest in technology that benefits such a niche product and lets be honest At the moment, iSCSI is a niche product. The globalSAN iSCSI Initiator for OS X enables Mac computers to connect to practically any iSCSI storage target, using standard GbE or 10GbE hardware.Ĭlick to expand.Useful yes, necessary, I'm not so sure, at least at the moment. There are several iSCSI initiators available for OS X, but we’ll limit this example to using the globalSAN iSCSI initiator which appears to be popular. Studio Network Solutions (SNS) has released its globalSAN iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X for free. Try it, I think you can try GlobalSan initiator for 14 days for free. So, you can create a volume on your NAS, as I do, where I store all my 18,000 mp3's for iTunes and 123Gb of photo's for my Aperture and 100Gb of video for my iMovie and it all runs as fast as if it was on a local, internal drive. You couldn't do that by mapping a drive on your NAS. Even on very low cost NASes, you can see data transfer rates of perhaps 85MegaBytes per second, yes, I did say per second. To stream video from a NAS to your iMac by just mapping a drive to it can be very frustrating because you can't normally reach the data transfer rates required but with iSCSI you can achieve very fast data transfer rates. Conversely iSCSI uses the same fast data transfer technology of SCSI but over the internet or more likely over your local LAN. SCSI is very efficient but uses an interface cable. Many decent NAS units, mine's a Synology one, allow iSCSI to send and receive data to and from the NAS. Many FibreChannel technologies are currently being replaced by iSCSI because not only is iSCSI fast, it runs over cheap cat5 cable so it is still very much cutting edge technology. Let's not kid ourselves here, it should be in OSX for 'free' thus avoiding OSX users, who need or desire the speed and flexibility of iSCSI, from having to pay upwards of $80 per machine to get get that capability. And BTW, Micro$oft doesn't have a vested interest because it too doesn't have hardware that requires it as far as I know. I hear what you say Mike but iSCSI is such a useful and some would say necessary component that I'm surprised Apple didn't match Micro$oft with a built in (free) one.
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