Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) or FC-ATA is a type of computer

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. FATA is simply a low cost ATA or

SATA SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard t ...

disk drive equipped with a small external converter, that

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the interface to Fibre Channel (FC). This allows users to use the disk in an enterprise-class

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, at about half of the cost of a native FC drive (cost per gigabyte of capacity).

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