You're Missing one crucial point on this. If you read the story carefully, it says "Fibre channel bus" not "gigabit eithernet" Fibre channel is used in SAN's (it's just like SCSI, except the hard drives can be a mile apart and it runs at 1 gigabit, not 160 megabit)(Makes ultra66 look like MFM), and if you look on pricewatch, a fibre channel will run you from $350 to $5000 EACH COMPUTER. This is NOT include the cost of the cabling, and the cost of the Fibre channel hard drives. If you look for prices on Fibre channel HARD DRIVES, a single 18 gig 10,000 rpm will run you a hair over $1000. PLUS you have the cost of the fuzzy logic development. Have you ever heard of a supercomputer that can automatically detect a failing node and reroute the traffic and load all by itself seamlessly? Seems pretty cheap when you look at it this way.
I can tell you why they stopped making them. It has nothing to do with which is better (IDE/SCSI/FC-AL) or anything. What is has to do with is that WD makes HORRIBLE SCSI drives!! they are the WORST quality hard drives I have ever had the mis-fortune of running across. I'm still using 5-6 year old seagate drives and they still run perfect, but i'll be damned if I have a WD SCSI drive last longer that 6 months! My company bought six of them for our main file server and 3 months later 4/6 were bad!
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You're Missing one crucial point on this. If you read the story carefully, it says "Fibre channel bus" not "gigabit eithernet" Fibre channel is used in SAN's (it's just like SCSI, except the hard drives can be a mile apart and it runs at 1 gigabit, not 160 megabit)(Makes ultra66 look like MFM), and if you look on pricewatch, a fibre channel will run you from $350 to $5000 EACH COMPUTER. This is NOT include the cost of the cabling, and the cost of the Fibre channel hard drives. If you look for prices on Fibre channel HARD DRIVES, a single 18 gig 10,000 rpm will run you a hair over $1000. PLUS you have the cost of the fuzzy logic development. Have you ever heard of a supercomputer that can automatically detect a failing node and reroute the traffic and load all by itself seamlessly? Seems pretty cheap when you look at it this way.
I can tell you why they stopped making them. It has nothing to do with which is better (IDE/SCSI/FC-AL) or anything. What is has to do with is that WD makes HORRIBLE SCSI drives!! they are the WORST quality hard drives I have ever had the mis-fortune of running across. I'm still using 5-6 year old seagate drives and they still run perfect, but i'll be damned if I have a WD SCSI drive last longer that 6 months! My company bought six of them for our main file server and 3 months later 4/6 were bad!