Show HN: BeamDisk – High Performance iSCSI Initiator for macOS

Category: infrastructure

Tags: iscsi, macos, storage, apple-silicon, san

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

BeamDisk is a high-performance iSCSI initiator for Apple Silicon Macs that works without kernel extensions, installable via the Mac App Store. It targets a real gap left by the lack of native iSCSI support on modern macOS, with impressive throughput benchmarks and support for standard targets like TrueNAS and LIO.

Target audience: DevOps engineers and Mac-based professionals needing SAN/iSCSI storage access

Repository: https://beamdisk.app/

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