Techie moment.

We're going to be getting some new systems in to go with the nifty Gigabit-Ethernet backbone that we've got running up and down the State. The boxes are generally fairly normal, with one odd feature. Their hard drives aren't SCSI, as such... at least not standard ribbon-cable SCSI. No, these hard drives run on fiber-optic communications.

Wow. Cool tech. Basically means that the length of the bus isn't limited by EM interference, but the strength of the light signal (which can be repeated), and instead of the 40MB a second SCSI gets now, the max is somewhere around 100MB/sec. crazy.