future of SCSI

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Palux

Hi
What happens to SCSI?
I see less and less SCSI drives in retail shops.
Will it diseappear completely?
 
Hello, Palux!
You wrote on Tue, 24 May 2005 20:11:52 +0200:

P> Hi
P> What happens to SCSI?
P> I see less and less SCSI drives in retail shops.
P> Will it diseappear completely?

Don't think so, but it will mainly be used in commercial environments.

With best regards, EDJO.
 
DaveW said:
SCSI is old technology that is fading out of use. SATA is one of the
replacements for it.
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SCSI may be old technology, but it will be around for a while. SCSI can
currently offer better connection bandwidth (particularly during sustained
transfers) and has the advantage that you don't need one channel for each
device.

Unfortunately the controllers are cabling are expensive and the drives tend
to be enterprise/server grade drives (also expensive). This combined with
the economies of scale means that SCSI byte for byte works out much more
expensive.

Therfore you only tend to see SCSI in mid to highend servers.

If fact contrary to the belief that SCSI is dying, most new drive technology
appears on a SCSI interface for the enterprise market and then ends up down
the chain in a consumer level SATA or PATA device.

First CD Burners....SCSI
First DVD Burners....SCSI
First 10'000 RPM Drives....SCSI

Sitting on my desk here I have a (almost a year old) 15'000 RPM drive with a
320Mb/s interface, can you even buy those in SATA form yet ?
 
In message <[email protected]> Wayne
Stallwood said:
SCSI may be old technology, but it will be around for a while. SCSI can
currently offer better connection bandwidth (particularly during sustained
transfers) and has the advantage that you don't need one channel for each
device.

Unfortunately the controllers are cabling are expensive and the drives tend
to be enterprise/server grade drives (also expensive). This combined with
the economies of scale means that SCSI byte for byte works out much more
expensive.

Therfore you only tend to see SCSI in mid to highend servers.

If fact contrary to the belief that SCSI is dying, most new drive technology
appears on a SCSI interface for the enterprise market and then ends up down
the chain in a consumer level SATA or PATA device.

First CD Burners....SCSI
First DVD Burners....SCSI
First 10'000 RPM Drives....SCSI

Sitting on my desk here I have a (almost a year old) 15'000 RPM drive with a
320Mb/s interface, can you even buy those in SATA form yet ?
Click to expand...

Nope, but as soon as you can I'll be replacing at least one of my
Raptors...
 
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