How IBM's DS6800 line of storage? It's tiny (3U), reasonably priced, and does support intermixing FCP and FICON on a single unit. (You can have two to eight ports, and each type comes in pairs. So for both FCP and FICON you'd have at least four ports going.) One unit (without expansion) ranges from 0.5 TB to almost 5 TB depending on configuration.
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