#90925 - 05/20/03 08:39 AM
Re: Question: Will there be Serial SCSI???
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Cost, they are $200 more. Why? I have no clue.
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#90926 - 05/20/03 11:29 AM
Re: Question: Will there be Serial SCSI???
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Originally posted by No457_Squog:
With the current 'revolution' of IDE drives, is there any major technological wall that prevents SCSI drives/cards from going the same way?
S! SCSI is already a serial interface. IDE technology is finally catching up 30 years later. -Skater
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#90927 - 05/20/03 02:17 PM
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LOL, we use so many acronyms these days I guess we tend to forget what they represent. In this case, Small Computer SERIAL Interface (SCSI). IDE was adopted as a less expensive (but lower speed) alternative. btw: Apple Mac's have been SCSI-only since their inception. Originally posted by No457_Squog:
With the current 'revolution' of IDE drives, is there any major technological wall that prevents SCSI drives/cards from going the same way?
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#90930 - 05/23/03 06:36 AM
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Originally posted by No457_Squog:
Whoops... With SCSI cables having 80 pins... I naturally thought they were parallel ( I guess I was comparing them like a Serial port to a Parallel port)
But... aren't there like... 5 pins in Serial ATA cables??? and yet you can get higher speeds?
S! Most LVD SCSI drives operating at 160Mb/s and 320Mb/s have 68-pin interfaces. U320 SCSI is the fastest available. SATA is not that fast yet. When it is, I am sure that the next iteration of SCSI will operate at 640Mb/s. I do not believe that IDE or SATA technology will ever surpass the SCSI interface. -Skater
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#90931 - 05/23/03 01:36 PM
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Not while they're still cheaper, anyway! Of course, those high speeds are burst only as no HD can sustain those transfers, and they need to be on the same controller. PCI still gives us a 133MB/s limitation.  The Jedi Master
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#90932 - 05/26/03 02:12 AM
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(Sorry to drag this thread up again gents...) Posted by jedimaster: PCI still gives us a 133MB/s limitation. Ahhh... now that's interesting... does that mean that SCSI drives therefore are handicapped by the speed of the PCI bus??? PS: Has anyone seen a motherboard with an onboard SCSI controller? (NOT a 10-year-old mobo :p ) S!
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#90933 - 05/26/03 06:24 AM
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Originally posted by No457_Squog: (Sorry to drag this thread up again gents...)
Posted by jedimaster: PCI still gives us a 133MB/s limitation.
PS: Has anyone seen a motherboard with an onboard SCSI controller? (NOT a 10-year-old mobo :p )
S! Yep. Plenty. Use them all the time. I especially like Asus motherboards with onboard Ultra160 and Ultra320 SCSI. Why? What's your point? -Skater
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28
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#90934 - 05/26/03 06:27 AM
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I wasn't really trying to make a point here... just more inquisitive. Gotta start thinking about my next computer buy, that's all  Thanks a lot guys for all your help. S!
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Exodus
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