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.

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Here's another way

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Ewwwww.

[Dr Tom Danger]

Ug, a Compaq case? I've found there just isn't enough "Compaq sucks" propaganda on the web these days.

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.

from the....

[Anonymous Coward]

...porn storage at the speed of light department

Re:No, I don't want one

[smittyoneeach]

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.