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Do-It-Yourself Fibre Channel Array
skarphedin writes "There's an interesting story here on a do-it-yourself fibre channel array. These guys make one for under $250 and it can perform up there with 15k SCSI in some cases." You know you want one.
1) Buy a lot of fibre
2) Fly to Folkestone, England
3) Rent a sailboat
4) Sail to Calais, France, laying an array of fibre behind you
5) Congratulation on your Do-It-Yourself Fibre Channel Array.
But seriously, I bet if I wired this in my dorm room I could get some mean negative pings in UT '03. Kinda like a 'spider sense' for the pc.
suck my ping!
Is anyone as annoyed as I am about aticles spreat across 4376245 pages for no fucking reason? Page 2 for example (which is only 2 paragraphs of actual text) uses less than 50% of the page space! You have to scroll WAY past the end of the artlcle to even see all the ad's on the left column.
I guess the fact that there is no normal "print version" link like MOST sites have is the most annoying. There is however a link to a PDF version on the Very Last Page which helps, but html is much prefered.
And what's with the wood blocks that looked like they were cut with a chain saw or hacked apart with an exacto blade? Ever hear of sheet metal? Hell, at LEAST pick up a used DRIVE case instead of a TAPE case. Even NEW they are pretty cheap.
The CONCEPT of the project is interesting, but the implementation leaves MUCH to be desired.
...porn storage at the speed of light department
6) Profit!
You raise an excellent QA point.
Could become some major FUD, though, Elmer.
You figure that your first outing or two might well have some flaws, and are certainly not ready for enterprise usage.
So you get the hang of it on some little implementations before you go for a big one.
Sort of the way you start up a little software test project and make sure you understand all of
the header, object, and API issues for that shiny new library you just got off of SourceForge
before you try to integrate something new with what you're _really_ working on.
As a business strategy, FUD is great. If we can keep people convinced that they _can't_ do it themselves, they're more likely to hire us at phat consulting rates.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear