[mbreese]

I don’t have a use case, but I was thinking the same thing. But then I realized that the WAN speeds available now are equal to or faster than the LAN speeds I had when I had reason to use iSCSI. And things worked out decently well then, so I can see this being useful.

[solid_fuel]

Eh, the main thing you would feel with this is latency, not bandwidth. Even on a 10 Mbps LAN, you would be able to open a file pretty quick, but over the internet latency is going to be > 100 ms in almost every case. That's a lot more painful.

[qdotme]

Correct. Well, almost correct. Will see how much uptake this service will take (if any), and we can probably place it really close to the edge - for now it's on an Oregon server only.

That said, this isn't too far from mechanical HDD latencies of the /real/ SCSI drives.