Use Fibre Channel drives in a home PC?

[Tomsk]

Id there any way to use these Fibre Channel drives in a home PC? Some kind of converter maybe?

A friend has loads of them from when an old array of his employers got thrown out. We're wondering if they can be used or if they're just good for ebay

 

[P5-133XL]

FC controllers and FC storsge subsystems, tend to be on the expensive side: I'd just ebay them and get what you can.

 

[Handruin]

I'd also recommend eBay. There are FC to SCSI converters...but holy-wow are they expensive (cough circa $5K cough).

Internal FC cards may run in the several hundred dollar USD range if you've got the cash to spend. Visit ATTO for more info there. I don't know if Emulex, QLogic, or JNI make non-light pulse cards anymore. Otherwise they are some of the big-dogs in fibre channel...JNI typically seen in Solaris/Unix environments and Emulex/QLogic in windows Linux (at least in my experience).

You won't be seeing huge performance payoffs with FC so your only fighting argument are free FC drives. I guess only you can judge if it's worth using. What capacity are the drives?