Storage Fibre Channel drives:
Disk drives
Fibre Channel drives
In this section, you'll find information about Fibre Channel drives and other comparative info.
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What are SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel and FATA disk drives? When will there be an iSCSI disk drive?
FAQ - Well, with the right marketing and packaging, we could say there's already an iSCSI disk drive today...
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4 Gbit Fibre Channel switch product specifications
Buying Guide - Switches are used to segregate network traffic, and they are particularly crucial in a storage area network (SAN) to interconnect servers and storage devices into the overall SAN fabric. As SANs scale up over time, data centers are often upgrade and...
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Fibre Channel HBA hardware specifications
Buying Guide - A host bus adapter (HBA) provides an interface that interconnects servers, switches and storage devices on a fabric. But the selection of an HBA goes far beyond its installation and physical connectivity. Today's HBAs support vastly improved intelligence...
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Integrating iSCSI and FC storage
Feature - Mixing iSCSI with Fibre Channel (FC) allows you to make more efficient use of installed storage capacity, but marrying the two protocols isn't without its challenges. Bringing iSCSI into existing FC SANs raises integration issues and leads to a somewhat...
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FC-AL topology in a SAN environment
Ask the Expert - SAN expert Greg Schulz describes the FC-AL topology in a SAN environment.
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Why go to 4 Gbit Fibre Channel if I'm not already using all of my 1 Gbit or 2 Gbit bandwidth?
FAQ - Depending on your needs, there may not be a compelling argument to switch to 4 Gbit...
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How does IP storage differ from iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel?
FAQ - Generically, IP storage involves any storage functionality that is leveraging TCP/IP as a network transport...
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Hitachi ships SAS and 4 Gbps FC drives
25 May 2005
Article - Hard disk drive maker Hitachi ships SAS and 4 Gbps FC drives, paving the way for systems that combine SATA and SAS drives.
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Mixing Fibre Channel and SATA drives
30 Mar 2005
Article - Randy Kerns, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, offers his recommendations for mixing Fibre Channel and SATA drives in a single midrange array.
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SATA, Fibre Channel and ATA disks on the same array?
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Storage Management Strategies for the CIO