is SCSI dead?

[PremiumG]

Wasn't SCSI a lot faster than even ATA150?

 

[MustISO]

Do you mean why no new drives? SCSI is still alive and used in servers all over the place. We have SCSI and Fibre drives at work.

 

[Matthias99]

The SCSI interface hasn't gotten any faster than U320 (it would start getting VERY restrictive with cabling, I suspect, and FC is generally used when higher bandwidth is needed).

There have been some newer SCSI drives, though. They keep tweaking the firmware and increasing the cache size and platter density, just like they do with the IDE ones. You can actually get 15KRPM drives in larger sizes now.

 

[eXx08]

Actually SCSI is mainly for servers but I have a better question....

So whyh isn't Nvidia making chips support SCSI???

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Opteron Guy
Actually SCSI is mainly for servers but I have a better question....

So whyh isn't Nvidia making chips support SCSI???

Uh... because for the normal desktop end-user, it offers nothing over IDE/SATA and SCSI is way more expensive per GB?

Also, SATA/IDE controllers are cheaper than SCSI ones, because the wiring and logic is simpler.

This should become irrelevant fairly soon, though, with SAS. You'll be able to run SCSI and SATA drives off the same controller.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

This should become irrelevant fairly soon, though, with SAS. You'll be able to run SCSI and SATA drives off the same controller.

that would be pretty cool...

OP, why do you think SCSI is dead? there are still scsi drives and they still own all the other hard drives (the new raptors still got nothing on the 15k RPM SCSI's and don't beat the 10K SCSI's in all the bench's). in my eyes, it's still alive and well

 

[BigCoolJesus]

Originally posted by: alimoalem

Originally posted by: Matthias99

This should become irrelevant fairly soon, though, with SAS. You'll be able to run SCSI and SATA drives off the same controller.

the new raptors still got nothing on the 15k RPM SCSI's and don't beat the 10K SCSI's in all the bench's). in my eyes, it's still alive and well

Careful with that statement..........theres raptor fans that will argue differently :Q