Storage Area Networks

Compaq and Dell both have documents on their website that talk about their SAN solutions. I have also seen reviews of SANs in eWeek, Network Computing, and a couple of other magazines.

Also be sure that a SAN is what is really needed for your particular case. I have seen NAS (network attached storage) devices work very well and do not entail as much work as SANs.

Here is a very good link.
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20010104S0002

and here is the industry association link

http://www.snia.org/

You can find more than what you are expecting from: http://www.emc.com/techlib/
EMC is the lider in storage soluctions, However you will find in this site many other cool products and solutions for specifics need & platforms.

Outs: Be carefull, it is not as easy as the sell , that an NT or netware partition will automatically extended and recognized an usuable, when you add an HD to the box.

good luck

Go to eweek. April 9th issue, page 26.

It goes into a great detail about SAN and NAS. Be sure to go after the one that fits your needs. Compares EMC, etc.

http://www.eweek.com