Is a 50 pin symbios scsi card usefull anymore?

[tjdavis1138]

I was given a Symbios Logic 50pin pci scsi card today. I've never owned or messed with anything scsi, so I really don't know if this card is still good for anything now a days or should I just junk it?

Can you still buy 50pin hard drives, cdrom's, cd burners, etc?

 

[TunaBoo]

Yes, the best burners and CD ROMs and DVDs use 50 pin. I for one would be happy to take it off your hands

 

[Colt45]

still good for optical drives, but its lost its touch for HDD's because the max transfer rate is 20mb/s

very little cpu overhead though.

edit: i forgot, theres a fair share of scanners that use 50pin scsi as well..

 

[MadRat]

I found a FREE scanner that someone was throwing out. They bought a 50-pin SCSI scanner not realising that parrallel ports are different than SCSI ports.

 

[tjdavis1138]

Cool. I may try to pick something up in the for/sale forum and try it out. Of course that might get me hooked and then I would be spending big money on 10,000rpm hard drives and ultra wide scsi cards.

OH WELL!!

Thanks,

 

[Oyeve]

SCSI rocks! once you go scsi you will never go back to ide or atapi!