Damn I love SCSI!

[Marty]

I was just Burning a CD at 12X, copying a 600+MB file to Disk, and hosting several users on my FTP server simultaneously. This would never have been possible with IDE. Just sharing my Joy!

Marty

 

[Marty]

Com'on fellow SCSI users, share the warmth!

Marty

 

[dkozloski]

I converted everything to SCSI 10 years ago and have never regretted it since.

 

[pdo]

I'm with you all the way on this one. Never again will I worry about coasters with my new Plextor SCSI Burnproof.

 

[goldboyd]

why weren't you playing Q3 at the same time i love burning a cd, outputting a dvd to my tv, and playing Q3 all at the same time

SCSI RULES

 

[soulm4tter]

my Plextor UltraPlex Wide CD-ROM blows. It borks all my mp3 encoding and screws up when i burn from it. I just put in a Pioneer DVD drive and everything works fine now. I'll have to RMA it....=( My Plextor 12/4/32 SCSI CD-RW works well though. Don't have any SCSI hard drives yet, but hopefully soon, since i already have an Ultra160 controller.

 

[ArkAoss]

hmm share the joy give me a free scsi controller card

 

[pg22]

I've burned, WinRar'd, had 2 CuteFTP's going, ICQ, Outlook 2000, and browsing the internet, all at the same time

Plextor SCSI 12/4/32 0wns

 

[Ben]

<---- Is sharing the warmth of SCSI

 

[Erasmus-X]

I'm loving my UltraPlex 40.....

The only drives on my system that are not SCSI are my hard drives. I just can't afford SCSI on those yet. Having fun though with my UltraPlex 40 CD-ROM, TEAC CD-R56S CD-R, and ORB 2.2GB external drive. The performance difference is unbelievable.

 

[FaultCode]

Not only is ALL of my storage SCSI (U2W for the hard drives) but I have two 733E P3s. The multitasking is outstanding. If you have the cash, do the SCSI thing.

 

[Rellik]

I´m with you all the way. 2 drives, cd-rom present.
Hopefully cdr and another drive next year...

 

[Shockwave]

Whoa!! Plextor SCSi with BurnProof?! I thought that was only in their IDE drives....Did they come out with some new SCSI burners?? I already have a SCSi Plextor 8x2832 and like it but I wanna get a 12x w/ BurnProof. If they got a SCSI w/ B.P., lemme know!!!

 

[pdo]

Plextor SCSI burnproof is out already and it freakin rawks man. I usually don't upgrade that often when it comes to burner so this one should keep me happy for at least 2 years.

 

[seewhy]

Yah man, I got an Ultraplex 40x, cdrw, dvd, 2 SCSI harddrive, 2 IDE harddrive all working at the same time. Let see any IDE people have that many stuff in their system. Now if some one make a raid card as cheap as those promise cards, it would be heaven!!

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

my old pentium machine has scsi built into the mobo. doens't have scsi drives in it thou. they too exepnsive to be worth it for an old pentium machine that only does word processing.

 

[heat23]

i love my teac 6x scsi burner...probably made over 400 cds, not 1 coaster
and this is with running aim, icq, winamp, mcafee, sb live thingy, several IE's, eudora, ms word/excel and other stuff probably....and i dont just have those programs open while burning...i also open them up while burning..
cool

 

[bonkers325]

scsi rules

 

[jimmygates]

Here is my setup

Adaptec 29160 Ultra 160 PCI SCSI
IBM 36LZX 10krpm 18.2GB HDD
Plextor 40x UltraPlex Wide
Plextor 12x10x32 SCSI CDRW
Pioneer 304S SCSI DVD


I went from IDE to this setup. Everything goes sooo much faster now

-Jimbo

 

[borealiss]

i love my scsi hard drives. considering they're over a year old and still outperform eide's. but i have a 2x burner, so it's not like i'm taxing my system when i burn or anything. but i'll grind this cdrw drive to the ground from usage before i upgrade. but scsi is still too damn expensive, yikes.

 

[Linh]

I routinely burn and play UT/Q3 at the same time.

 

[ndee]

OK..... IDE IS BETTER THAN SCSI *duck* Na, just kiddin', but is it worth the extra $ for a private person?

 

[Jeff H]

I'm split in my system: EIDE for hard drive, and SCSI for CD-ROM/CD-RW/scanner. I went w/ SCSI years ago, using a Sound Blaster 16 SCSI-2 card and a Toshiba 4x caddy CD-ROM. Until the SCSI side of the card crapped out the combo performed flawlessly.

I replaced the SB SCSI card w/ an iWill/Advansys PCI card and a Teac 32x CD-ROM. Later I added an HP SCSI scanner (the price was right, free <g>). Most recently I've added an HP 8x4x32 SCSI CD-RW. I haven't burned hundreds of discs, but to date I've yet to burn a coaster. Not once during any of the installations did I have any issues w/ SCSI (except for HP's crappy support for going from Win95 to 98).

 

[Agnivarsh]

I have a question on SCSI 80 pins and 68 pins.

I am in search of a Ultra 160 SCSI HD to connect to my Adaptec 39160 as my primary boot drive. I already have a 60 GB IDE RAID setup for my data so i am looking for a FAST 9 GB Ultra 160.

I found an IBM 9 gig 10K RPM HD (36LZX) model. But it says its 80 PIN.

Question is, is this drive a SCA drive??? I heard that SCA drives tend to be cheaper and are more pain to connect. I wouldnt want to do that.

So are ALL 80 pin drives SCA? if this is not SCA.. how do i connect it to 39160 (which has 2 68 pin connectors).

Please advise!

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Welcome aboard, Marty.

I use 52x CD-Reader with my SCSI-2 8x CD-Burner. Can do 650MB in 7:25 minutes.