The Ridiculously Fast Drives
When I took this photo, I didn’t have an available enclosure yet. I had to go buy a drive enclosure and then modify it to take the the array of fibre connections. Here I mad a custom fibre cable using an Ethernet cable and several custom small PCBs that had the actual drive connectors soldered on.
Fibre drives have the power and data all in one connector, much like Serial ATA is today. This is the case because fibre drives usually go into hot-swappable systems. Notice the lame tape used to hold the drives together as a temporary measure. Yeah, they got hot like this obviously but it wasn’t terrible.
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