Anyone seen a fire server?

[Lord Raiden]

Hi all. Got a really interesting question. Someone mentioned this to me and I have yet to find evidence of it so far. Apparently some company out there makes a network file server of sorts that's not your typical network file server. What it is, is the box itself is a multi-port network hub of sorts. Basically each network branch could plug into it (up to 25 branches) and each would have individual access to the files on the box. Now here's the trick. The drives are stored externally and access via firewire. Yup, you heard me right. Externally, and via fire wire. Apparently from what I picked up, the drives themselves are 250gig high speed SCSI drives enclosed in a typical external drive housing that sits on top of the box and connects via firewire. The advantage being that you can both hot swap the drives, and you can take them over to your neighborhood workstation or any server on the lan, plug them in, do what you need, unplug them and take them back over to this network drive hub and plug them back in all without rebooting. I like the idea and I'm trying to find who has one so I can check it out. Anyone seen anything like this yet?


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