I need to be able to image several laptops (20-50) at once. I am looking at utilizing a SAN because data transfer is EXTREMELY slow and we need to increase. My question is how would the laptops access the SAN's drives? Don't you need an HBA to be able to talk between host (SAN) and clients (laptops)? How would I be able to pull this off?
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Connecting laptops to SAN??????
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Don't be fooled by the speed of the target. 99% of laptop drives can only push around 70 IOPS and imaging something like Windows with thousands of small I/O, is not going to be any faster on a storage network. You should look at ways in optimizing the laptop storage so that imaging data could be faster.
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