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FATA Last modified: Friday, July 06, 2007

Short for Fibre Channel ATA FATA is a hybrid hard drive first introduced by HP in 2004 that combines both Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. FATA drives use an ATA drive mechanism, offering the same performance and capacity as a standard ATA drive, but also feature a Fibre Channel connector, which enables the FATA drive to be used where conventional Fibre Channel drives are currently connected.

EnterpriseStorageForum: HP Introduces Low-Cost, High-Capacity Drives Low-cost Fibre Channel disk drives are in as far as leading storage vendors such as HP and EMC are concerned. EnterpriseStorageForum: Making Storage Resilient Resilient storage infrastructures are not exclusive to large Fibre Channel storage area networks (SAN) environments.