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Hi,dilidolo wrote:Is there a way to get personal edition that supports multiple initiators for home use? Or do I have to get comercial edition?
BTW. I tested StarWind 2.6.4 with Solaris 10, works like a charm. :lol:
Hi,dilidolo wrote:Did some benchmark, got 70MB/s with ram disk and 35MB/s on image file with 3 IDE disk RAID-5 over GBE without Jumb-Frame.
Client side: XP SP2, broadcom 5704, MS Initiator 2
Server side: 2003 SP1, Intel pro 1000 CT, 3Ware 3*200G Maxtor 9 RAID-5
Switch: Dell 2724
No TCP optimization
Think performance is really depending on disk speed.
anton (staff) wrote:Guys, you're looking for enterprise-level features as part of iSCSI target package expecting to pay very small price StarWind Home would immediately support all of the stuff found in Enterprise level for Home price the same very day when I'll be able to swap my Subaru Impreza WRX STi for Ferrari Enzo paying 10 hundred bucks (not more!) of difference. I promise!
rodimus wrote:anton (staff) wrote:Guys, you're looking for enterprise-level features as part of iSCSI target package expecting to pay very small price StarWind Home would immediately support all of the stuff found in Enterprise level for Home price the same very day when I'll be able to swap my Subaru Impreza WRX STi for Ferrari Enzo paying 10 hundred bucks (not more!) of difference. I promise!
I've been looking for a software iSCSI target software for my home and I'd love to buy your product. However, the home version simply doesn't suit my needs being so connection limited, and the Enterprise edition is simply too much $$ for home use. I can't see that for many people that are considering iSCSI @ home that a single connection iSCSI solution would make a lot of sense.
Unfortunately, my only option appears to be a Linux solution, which is not what I'd prefer.
Have you considered offering different licenses instead of different functionality? Meaning, for commercial use, the price is the same as it is today. But, change the 'home' edition to have the same functionality as the Enterprise, but the license is specific for non-commercial use. To use your analogy, you get the Ferrari, but you can't drive it anywhere. There are many software companies that do this today.
I suspect you're worried that people would use the 'home' use for commercial? I wouldn't. Most commercial organizations don't want to pirate software, and those that do are not going to pay for software regardless.
Even if they did, I heard a Microsoft guy say a long time ago "We don't want people to pirate software, but we'd rather they pirate our software than somebody else's". It makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
I think you have a great unique product and I think you have the potential oppurtunity to create and own a 'home iSCSI market', and that would only lead to bigger & better things in the commercial market.
With respect & regards,
jb
n00dles wrote:Your maths isn't quite correct - if I built a Linux box and installed one of the freely available Linux iSCSI Target pacakges, I would have a box that was the equivalent of your $3000US product.
I'm sure there are many pc enthusiasts that have old P3/P4 boxes lying around just being used as little fileservers or backup or whatever. These are the kind of people that might want to play around with iSCSI in the home, not some Joe Average, which the home user license seems to be aimed at. That kind of user isn't going anywhere near iSCSI anytime soon, and in most cases probably only has one pc anyway.
But to pose the question in your forums and be mocked by the staff... well, that's no way to get customers is it?
Anton and I have been exchanging emails since the original post. He's been extremely polite and engaging, and has considered much of what I've said.n00dles wrote:Your maths isn't quite correct - if I built a Linux box and installed one of the freely available Linux iSCSI Target pacakges, I would have a box that was the equivalent of your $3000US product.
I'm sure there are many pc enthusiasts that have old P3/P4 boxes lying around just being used as little fileservers or backup or whatever. These are the kind of people that might want to play around with iSCSI in the home, not some Joe Average, which the home user license seems to be aimed at. That kind of user isn't going anywhere near iSCSI anytime soon, and in most cases probably only has one pc anyway.
But to pose the question in your forums and be mocked by the staff... well, that's no way to get customers is it?
n00dles wrote:Anton, I'm glad you can at least see my point about who your home package is aimed at - a 'single client iSCSI solution' is a market that simply does not exist. Otherwise I'm guessing you wouldn't be dropping the product.
But if you want to talk about enterprise solutions, let me tell you as someone who has for the last 4 years worked in several companies (the smallest of which had 10000 users) at the top of the Windows technical food chain, unless your software is Windows Logo Certified, and certified by whatever hardware vendor I will run it on, then you won't get a second look. Companies like EMC, Cisco and HP already have offerings in this space. And so too will Microsoft now that is has acquired String Bean. Where does that leave you?
imho, you would be better off targeting small to medim business and geeks like me and the other 2 original posters, rather than offering enterprise class functionality without the vendor supported certifications to back it up.
But hey, what would I know.