On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:23:11PM -0500, natecars at real-time.com wrote: > On 13 Jun 2002, Mike Hicks wrote: > > I've seen cheap FC drives floating around, but I suspect there must be > > a hidden cost somewhere.. Don't most of those drives use SCA > > backplanes? That can't be cheap. > > > > I don't really know enough about Fibre Channel, but that would > > definitely be fun. > > Controller is expensive. They aren't SCA, they are some sorta interface I > haven't actually seen in person.. :) I've only seen FC drives in rather large enclosures (10+ drives). The cable from the HBA (controller card) to the device is either copper or fibre. I can't imagine any of these pieces are cheap. Nate