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Fiber Channel 40-pin SCA HDs in a desktop?

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twharry

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What do you need as far as an adapter or card or whatever to use a set of fiber channel HDs in an ATX desktop? I cannot seem to find an answer anywhere.
 
http://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/fcs/process/pci.htm provides a list of manufacturers. Seagate has a FAQ http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/fc_desktop.html on the subject. From the looks of it, though, Fibre channel drives are really not at all designed for standard desktops. For a permanent installation, you would probably be rather better off with SCSI or an external drive array connected to a standard Fibre channel interface card. A lot of these, actually, use SCSI or SATA drives as well, with bridge logic allowing the whole mess to hang off a Fibre channel loop. Give http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/ http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/product...mpare.aspx?c=th&id=fibre_th&l=en&s=lca http://www.sun.com/storage/workgroup/ a look.

Odds are, though, that you would be better off with something that isn't Fibre channel. A high end SCSI drive is already the best, mechanically speaking, that money can buy these days and somewhat cheaper and much, much easier to work with in standard ATX land. Fibre channel is really designed to solve a slightly diffirent problem, that of connecting big RAID boxes to servers, compute clusters, and high end workstations.
 
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