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fibre channel?

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cptnwinky

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does anyone have any idea what the heck a fibre channel drive is? i'm looking at getting a server for my company, and i've never seen a fibre channel drive before. i thought raid was the best i should get? is it a speed difference or size difference, or do they just want more of your money?
 
Fibre channel maxes at 126 drives per loop and is a 100MB/s duplex bus giving a theoretical limit of 200MB/s.
 
I have a fibre channel Ciprico RAID array downstarts. 9 x 18GB, I think. Even has an LCD readout showing transfer rates and an access light for each drive. Very sweet. Thing weighs more than I do!

-SUO
 
Fiber channel is serial data inferface the most popular form of which is Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL).

FC-AL was designed for mass storage devices that require very high bandwidth. Using fiber optics to connect devices, it supports full-duplex data transfer rates of 100MBps. FC-AL is compatible with, and is expected to eventually replace, SCSI for high-performance storage systems.

The Fiber Channel Industry Assoc.

Thorin
 
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