Thanks for that buddy, symm an idea i had would be to mount the iscsi drive on a windows 2003 or 2008 server as a 1tb (or more) drive and put the users home folders on that drive then point our dfs to the shares on the drive, would this be a problm doing things this way any performance issues i'm going to use gigabit from server to dss units or should i create several smaller iscsi drives for different user groups and mount them as drives?
I like the idea of using iscsi and the failover/backup functions it has (failover not available yet for nas yet).
Of course, if it is mounted on a windows box before being shared out again, then you still have a single point of failure, don't you? I doubt performance would be better that way, anyway.
You're probably better going with NAS, since you have fewer failure points and also don't have to use a windows server. Within a year, NAS autofailover will be out. I'd go for the NAS, if possible. It's one of the most flexible options (dss has built-in rsync capability and data backup capability and even some level of AntiVirus protection that is only available for NAS volumes).
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