Short for Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, it is a new class of hybrid
disk
drive technology that is built specifically for
Fibre Channel systems. FATA
drives combine a Fibre Channel interface with a low-cost-per-gigabyte,
high-capacity disk drive mechanism to enable a new class of
storage devices
costing significantly less per gigabyte than mission-critical Fibre Channel
drives. Currently, Fibre Attached
Technology Adapted drives offer a capacity up to 250
gigabytes with a dual-port,
2GB/second, Fibre Channel interface. It's expected that this capacity standard
will change as the technology evolves in the future.
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Oracle replication with FATA disk drives white paper (PDF) This white paper provides performance reference information for the new FATA disk drive as a replication/backup destination for Oracle 9i databases. It also compares FATA performance with the performance of other Fibre Channel disks and tape drives tested under similar conditions.
