The Compaq Fibre Channel Storage system builds on Compaq's successful external storage product line by adding an external RAID controller with 6th generation RAID technology and a 100 MB/s Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) host to storage interface. The result is an external storage system that is ideal for databases, data marts, web servers, server consolidation, e-mail and other applications that require scalability and bandwidth for growing storage needs.