Fibre Channel
At one time, some engineers regarded Fibre Channel as the successor to the SCSI Parallel Interface for high-performance disk drives. Although it has been used successfully in many drive products, it has yet to earn the following of the other interfaces. The steady advance in the speeds of other interfaces has severely eroded its edge in performance. Both AT Attachment and the latest versions of parallel SCSI outrace Fibre Channel's 100MBps capabilities. Among personal computers, it remains a viable, but not popular, interface.
The current implementation of Fibre Channel used for mass storage systems is actually a specialized derivative subset of the technology called Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL). Although even this slice ...
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