HP this week is unveiling new hybrid hard drives that combine Fibre Channel and ATA technologies. Dubbed Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, or FATA, the new drives are aimed at dropping the cost of ...

Each module, available for EMC's Clariion CX400 and CX600 arrays, holds up to 15 250-Gbyte ATA hard drives. The modules can be mixed and matched with Fibre Channel drive modules, making Clariions the ...

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. today will announce plans to mix Fibre Channel and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) disk drives in its midrange arrays — another vendor in an emerging trend to ...

ATA drives are backwards compatable. You can put them in a 486 with an ATA33 channel and it would work fine.<BR><BR>Also, ATA channels are backward compatable, that if you put an ATA33 drive on an ...