We have to connect our first Fibre Channel switch, a QLogic SanBox, to a pair of Apple XRaid arrays and an XServe. We connected a laptop to the Fibre Channel switch and ran the Express Setup ...

In 2013 Fibre Channel achieved several significant milestones. Approximately 11M (10.97M) Fibre Channel ports shipped when you combine adapter and switch ports 1, not even counting target ports on ...

One of the keys to moving large files on a network is to move the data in large blocks without a lot of header information in between. As the computer world moved from mainframe computing to the ...

Storage area networks are about to get a whole lot faster as the various components necessary to put together a 4-Gbps Fibre Channel SAN finally hits the market. Fibre Channel SANs currently run at 2 ...

In this article, I will present information about the (current) Grand Poobah of magnetic storage: fibre channel. The specification for fibre channel was ANSI-approved in 1994. When you think of "fibre ...

This month we are going to look at how Fibre Channel and Ethernet can be used together in the broadcast facility. Sometimes this discussion is cast as Fibre Channel vs. Ethernet, as if there were a ...

I have an Apple 4 GB Fibre Channel PCI card (LSI manufactured) and I am wondering if I can use it with an M1 Mac. I was looking at the OWC Mercury Helios 3S thunderbolt PCI expansion chassis to house ...

Ethernet has become the communication protocol of choice for much in-house as well as cloud storage. Ethernet is the basis for Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage file sharing capabilities and ...

James Nardi oversees hundreds of terabytes of data. Sometimes, the disks that it all resides on get hammered more than 10,000 times a second. Sometimes, they get requests only once in a blue moon. “We ...