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Difference between fibre channel and SCSI drives?

Fibre Channel is a TYPE of SCSI drive. You have a few different types. To expand on dexvx's reply:

Fibre Channel

SCSI

"SCSI" means "Small Computer System Interface" and is the de facto standard for Enterprise storage requirements. FC SCSI is a different interface using fibre optics vs. the traditional SCA 80-pin to a backplane or 68-pin to a ribbon cable, drive connection method.

FC SCSI (these days) always requires the use of an external enclosure with a BACKPLANE. where data access times/throughput is a major concern. I.E. big bucks.

Chances are, if you are thinking about using FC SCSI, you already know what it is, b/c it's way expensive.

IIRC, FC SCSI backplanes have a theoretical bandwith throughput of 2GB/second. That's a lot of data! 😎

FC SCSI is typically used in very large NAS arrays (NAS)
 
FC can be shared accross mulitple machines also
4gb FC is available

Also IIRC FC doesn't have the drive limit per channel that SCSI does
 
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