[thelist] Share a drive across multiple webserver... NAS or SAN?

[Joshua Olson]

Hi listees,

If I wanted to be able to share a drive across multiple servers and maximize
the amount of throughput, would I want to install a NAS or a SAN?  

Until yesterday, I thought I wanted a SAN.  Then, someone told me that only
one web server can directly connect to the SAN (creating a LUN) and the
other servers would then share the local drive... thusly piping all traffic
through the controlling server.  Therefore, a SAN is no better than a NAS in
terms of concurrency.  Is that correct?

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168