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Storage Networking Protocol Fundamentals by Long, James [Cisco Press, 2006] (Paperback) [Paperback]
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January 29, 2010
I only got halfway through because it made my eyes bleed. I only give it 2 stars because it is thorough. The T10, T11 and T13 standards read almost the same as this book.
July 8, 2018
This is a very thorough book, and structured very well, chapter-order wise.
There was one thing that made this book very, very difficult to read, though. It's a long book and a big book (lots of text in each page I mean). Technology names, technical names, protocol names, names of technical papers in which technology was defined, names od commitees that came up or regulated a specific protocol - all get mentiones once in full wording and later only appear as an abbreviation.
And, boy, does the writer enjoy using abbreviations! So, you read about something in page 35 and after 50 pages the abbreviation of it appearse (after 30 other names and abbreviations joined the long list of things to remember) and you're sitting there trying to remember what THAT specific abbreviation means.
There is an appendix with every abbreviation and term in it, yes, but it's a hassle to stop and go look things up in it every other minute.
So, it's very thorough and professional but it's not an easy read at all.
There was one thing that made this book very, very difficult to read, though. It's a long book and a big book (lots of text in each page I mean). Technology names, technical names, protocol names, names of technical papers in which technology was defined, names od commitees that came up or regulated a specific protocol - all get mentiones once in full wording and later only appear as an abbreviation.
And, boy, does the writer enjoy using abbreviations! So, you read about something in page 35 and after 50 pages the abbreviation of it appearse (after 30 other names and abbreviations joined the long list of things to remember) and you're sitting there trying to remember what THAT specific abbreviation means.
There is an appendix with every abbreviation and term in it, yes, but it's a hassle to stop and go look things up in it every other minute.
So, it's very thorough and professional but it's not an easy read at all.
June 11, 2023
This is outdated and bad now, and was bad even when it was published. It doesn't match a lot of what is and was used in storage networks, and even though it has some useful information on SCSI, in general most of the book is somewhat useless and could've been replaced with "go read this and this", without trying to explain things in a useless way.
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