Demartek Storage Networking Interface Comparison

Updated 22 February 2012

By Dennis Martin, Demartek President

Because of the number of storage interface types and related technologies that are used for storage devices, we have compiled this summary document providing some basic information for each of the interfaces. This document will be updated periodically. This document may become larger over time.Contact us if you’d like to see additional information in this document.

The interface types listed here are known as “block” interfaces, meaning that they provide an interface for “block” reads and writes. They simply provide a conduit for blocks of data to be read and written, without regard to file systems, file names or any other knowledge of the data in the blocks. The host requesting the block access provides a starting address and number of blocks to read or write.

We are producing deployment guides for some of the interfaces described in this document. The Demartek iSCSI Deployment Guide 2011 is now available. More Read here