Openfiler

Openfiler is an open-source "storage management operating system" that takes the Linux OS and makes it into a SAN controller. It can all be configured with a web browser. It can act as both SAN or NAS. It supports multiple iSCSI targets with multiple LUNs.

A Step-By-Step OpenFiler tutorial by David Davis: “Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server“ and how to configure for a static IP.

Another free option: StarWind. Their free version supports up to 2TB.

USB Drive Speed Testing: HD Tach

From a PCWorld Article I read recently:

Test the speed of a flash USB drive with this freebie.

The faster your flash drive, the more smoothly programs will run. When shopping for a drive, look at the specs and try to find one with a read rate of 15 Mbps (megabits per second or 1.9 MB/sec) or faster. If you already have a flash drive, you can test its speed with a free utility like HDTach.

Description:

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

The trial version of HD Tach measures the sequential read speed (at various points on the device), the random access speed, interface burst speed and CPU utilization of the drive. The registered version adds sequential write testing.

Astaro Security Appliances

http://www.astaro.com/

"Enterprise-class Unified Threat Management appliances."

Hardware firewall / intrusion detection / VPN / Anti-Virus / Anti-malware / etc.
Recommended to me. Looks like a great GUI interface.