The Compaq 146GB factory integrated hard drive is a storage solution that has a FC-AL interface Type. Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop or FC-AL allows many servers and storage devices to be connected into a storage network. This configuration offers flexibility, performance and reliability advantages to high-end systems. This drive is an upgrade and has a data transfer rate of 200MB per second and offers the flexibility and expandability to meet any end-users growing storage capacity requirements.