Fiber channel!!! Holy molly, that’s pretty extreme. Is there actually a bottleneck that fiber channel solves?
not really. It’s like PCI Express, kinda useless, but it has awe factor and has a higher ceiling for the future. As of right now, there are no consumer video cards that hit the ceiling of AGP. Fibre channel will only really be usefull for large array storage like an Xserve RAID. Rarely does that kind of storage have to be put through one server though. And when you hit that point, you prabably have a cluster working on moving the data anyway, so a single Fibre uplink from the storage is kind of irrelevent.
Well… meh… the Octane’s SCSI bus is only 40MB/s, and it only supports SCSI drives - not SATA or anything remotely modern. Fibre Channel expansion cards are easy enough to get, so I opted for that.
Besides, it’s a single 1gb/s link. That’s around 125MB/s. The three drives are about 30MB/s each, so that’s 90MB/s bandwidth - enough for a few uncompressed SD-resolution realtime video streams.
But… meh… it got your attention, didn’t it 
