External Hard Drive Formatting

[Ice Czar]

justed used google define search it went to a glossary
http://www.data-core.com/glossary-of-terms.htm

but other resources might include
http://www.dothill.com/products/whitepapers/sanpaper.pdf
http://storagemagazine.techtarget.com/

the lines are very "grey" between the terms and even topologies these days
I employ the "software" test for a SAN basically