Re: [MLUG] SAN, NAS, External Drive Arrays

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

We opted for gig-e copper in our new computer room for a couple of 
reasons. Once was price, fiber nics are still pretty expensive. One of 
the others was ease of use. Rolling your own fiber has a bad reputation 
for being a real pita, mostly because getting the ends right used to be 
pretty tough. This may have changed.

Rick

Michael wrote:
>>Lots of places do have copper gig-e in a server room (or to the desktop),
>>then fiber for the backbone.  Fiber also provides an easy upgrade path
>>to future technologies.
> 
> 
> I've never ran fiber. How hard is it to wrong with compared to copper? It
> seems a bit more expensive (going from some catalogs I have) and requires
> other tools. Any first hand experience with it?
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