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Comment by burner420042

4 hours ago

They operate at different layers.

iscsi is a block device: you gain a 'disk drive' sitting on your network. A dedicated network for disk traffic and use it to host on-prem virtualization. It's called a SAN array.

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Tepix  40 minutes ago

Sure, but eventually you will reach a layer with files, usually. Then you can run benchmarks and compare numbers.

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