AACK! Now Its Serial SCSI

[Bozo Galora]

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[ST4RCUTTER]

Well, I'm not too sure about this whole serial ATA/SCSI standard. What I mean by that is even with a better interconnect, we're dealing with a rotating medium that will need to be vastly improved if we're going to see dramatic increases in throughput. Whether that improvement comes in the form of IBM's "pixie dust" alone or some other change in the way the data is stored/retrieved will have to be determined. If you ask me, the whole mechanical spinning disk should be going the way of the dinosaur. How about holographic storage...come you computer engineers! We can do better than the status quo?

 

[Soccerman]

heh well hard drives HAVE increased in performance greatly over the past few years anyway.. but ya, I'd much rather have mass storage with access times in the nanoseconds and transfer rates in the hundreds of megabytes.

still, Serial SCSI will be sweet, as long as it has all the features of today's SCSI, adding that thin wire to this already sweet interface will make it even better

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Yeah, but SCSI drives are targeted toward server applications where access times are critical. Serial SCSI won't do crapola for head read/write times.

 

[Gunbuster]

Why not just make Fibre channel cheap

 

[Pariah]

Fibre channel is an external standard designed to be wired to storage boxes, and it's slower than near future SCSI320.

As for serial SCSI. 2004? yawn... repost this when I can buy it sometime in mid 2006.

 

[Soccerman]

Starcutter I don't care what SCSI was made for, I care what it CAN DO. I KNOW SCSI drives won't be any faster (at the moment) going from Parallel to Serial.

I DO know that Serial will probably take over from Ultra 320 or whatever it's called. I also know that this serial connection can scale very high, though how high I don't know.

I also know that today it's still the drive that is the limit, especially when you use these drives in replacement of IDE drives for a performance computer (ie, typically alone on the channel).

why then besides having the potential to scale higher would I want Serial SCSI? well for the thin cables of course!

sheesh, I mean come on, if you're going to run SCSI in your ultra fast gaming machine, you're also going to want good cooling, (ie, not have to force the air through all these ribbons etc).

 

[Agent004]

Ah, where are those flurorecent(sp?) disks......