Re: MD: quality of optical cables

[Stainless Steel Rat]

* Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  on Mon, 17 Jan 2000
| Well, for IDE (in UDMA/66 mode) it's 66Mhz over a 60 cm long cable. SCSI
| supports even higher frequencies over an even longer cable. Unless you
| start using fire-wire or other hot technology disk applications, you'll
| never see optical connections inside a PC.

Fibre channel (FDDI) is *the* way to hook up high capacity, high speed RAID
configurations.  Anything less, even the current generation ultra fast/wide
SCSI is pathetically slow by comparison.
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