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Advantages of non-HD SCSI

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Sideswipe001

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Okay, I know the advantages that SCSI can give in hard drives over IDE ones. Now I'm wondering if there is any real advantage to using other things on the SCSI bus - like a CD burner. Is there any real difference between a SCSI burner and an IDE one? How about scanners? Any reason to use a SCSI scanner rather than a USB one?

 
There used to be since USB 1.1 was pretty slow for large format scanners. I had/have a SCSI cdrom/cdr (plextor 40x and plextor 8/20) that I could do cd to cd copying without burnproof since both drives could be accessed concurrently. I even had a scsi harddrive that I burned from so I could do things on the computer while I burned a cd. Nowadays there are buffer underrun features built into every writer, so nobody thinks about it anymore, but before, you'd have to step away from the computer for a while when burning a cd.

SCSI tape drives are still popular in servers, but other than that, there's no need for other scsi devices (not that you can easily find them anyway).
 
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