Fibre Channel has firmly established itself as the premier serial interface, and over the past decade, Seagate has driven the development of this powerful technology. Fibre Channel provides for unparalleled disc drive performance, scalability, security, and data integrity. Seagate Fibre Channel hard drives, the Cheetah 15K and NL35 Series, enable a new class of tiered storage solutions that seamlessly integrate into mainstream Fibre Channel architectures, while delivering far greater flexibility, scalability and security than other storage interfaces.

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The advent of Fibre Channel (FC) prompted a new network paradigm: the storage area network (SAN). With every server able to see every storage device in an FC SAN, data accessibility skyrocketed, and network efficiency with it. Now tiered storage has rewritten the rules for FC storage efficiency, complementing established online and offline storage platforms with a third tier of nearline storage to cost-effectively house the rarely accessed but fundamentally essential data that is flooding the enterprise. More>

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Seagate Fibre Channel hard drives

• Reduce storage system design complexity with advanced connectivity and configuration capabilities.
• Expand scalability with a thousand-fold increase in drive addressability compared to other interfaces.
• Ensure the highest data integrity with critical security cross-checks completed during command execution.
• Provide the fastest hard drive interface on the market today: 4Gb/s half duplex, 8Gb/s full duplex.

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