I was taking about Fibre Channel...same drive with a different controller would cost 2x, and the switches and management software were just obscenely priced. t

I was taking about Fibre Channel...same drive with a different controller would cost 2x, and the switches and management software were just obscenely priced. there was also iscsi. I tried to use to it in a couple jobs and it was really poorly performing, and not very reliable. I _suspect_ that's just because it was never paid attention to properly? maybe because it was using TCP instead of a reliable but unordered protocol. thinking about it, I'm off on the bandwidth numbers. SSDs move out quite a bit...so maybe you wouldn't replace your primary OS drive. But for secondary and tertiary storage ethernet drivers would really be nice PCIe fabrics are still kicking around. I agree that's another enabling technology that just hasn't found a home. You would think with this USBc stuff that would suddenly be of great interest.