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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emrys" data-source="post: 7511" data-attributes="member: 2">Fibre channel is hugely expensive at this point.Basically it allows you to connect a seperate array of drives, in another piece of hardware, to your machine, with a speed so fast that you most likely won't know it is another machine that houses the drives. Something similiar to what you see here : <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4791" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/</a>. Of course they aren't always that elegant, but you get the idea.Probably cost prohibitive at this point <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>