> Do you mean what is being referred to below as "worm HDD": > > http://www.storagesearch.com/view64.html
this instead: http://www.plasmon.com/archive_solutions/udodrives.html or a bd+r. for cost reasons, this isn't that practical anymore. > I think that I'm also getting confused with the use of the term > "server". I've just beens listening to Tanenbaum: a "file server" is anything that takes the server side in a 9p conversation. this could be a dedicated appliance (ken's file server), a device driver (say, #æ, the aoe driver) or a user program. there are no assumptions about how, where or what transport protocol is used. - erik