Great Optics: HP Fiber Optic Link

The Hewlett-Packard Fiber Optic Link disk array product with one SCSI-2 disk drive removed. Enlarge
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Date: ca. 1986

The Hewlett-Packard Fiber Optic Link (HP-FL) disk-array product could offer up to 27GB of data-protected storage per cabinet, an astonishing capacity for its time. HP-FL was introduced to provide storage solutions that could match the computing power of Hewlett-Packard’s breakthrough line of Precision Architecture reduced instruction set computers (PA-RISC).

Tags: 1980s • 1986 • disk drive • RISC ; Precision Architecture • storage

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