Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA)
or FC-ATA is a type of computer
hard disk drive. FATA is simply a low cost
ATA or
SATA disk drive equipped with a small external converter, that
bridges the interface to
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data cen ...
(FC). This allows users to use the disk in an enterprise-class
disk enclosure, at about half of the cost of a native FC drive (cost per gigabyte of capacity).
See also
*
ATA over Ethernet (AoE)
*
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
References
Hard disk computer storage
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