Is there such as SCSI on laptops?

[Blackberry Junkie]

I talked to a friend of mine online, he brags that he built a SCSI laptop and I told him, there is no such as scsi for laptop, but only for desktop, workstation, or server, but he keeps insisting they do have SCSI version on lappy.

Please point me out if I am wrong about that

Oh and, will you please post a link if there is SCSI version for lappy.



ABETech

 

[JC]

Don't Mac lappys use SCSI? Like their desktops?
Anyways, you can a SCSI PC card for external SCSI devices.

JC

 

[bozo1]

Apple stopped using SCSI some years ago.

 

[JC]

Obviously, I'm not a mac guy

 

[Mday]

abetech, does your friend know what scsi is?

scsi is not standard in any laptop configuration i know of.

 

[Evadman]

"An SCSI PCMCIA Card costs about $115"

Link Here Not really built in, but it does kind of count

 

[Evadman]

2.5" fromfactor SCSI for laptop drive right Here.

About 1/3 the way down in "Conner" section. Look at "interface" column. there are also 2 in the "toshiba" section.

<edit>
Found one more thing. An adaptor to go from a 54 pin SCSI laptop hard drive to a regular 50 pin SCSI cable for data archival. HERE!
<another edit>
More crap Here

Is that enough

 

[yakko]

I wish SCSI was more popular because I hate IDE.

 

[hans007]

scsi is too expensive to be put into anything mainstream and not user upgradeable. there are some portable sparcstations, maybe those have it. then again not that many companies even make laptop drives anymore so maybe not.

 

[RSI]

<< I wish SCSI was more popular because I hate IDE. >>

I wish SCSI was mor popular cause then it'd be cheaper, and we'd have a decent hard drive solution for people like us at a decent price as well. Too bad we have to pay crazy prices if we want fast hard drives.

-RSI

 

[QTPie]

interesting.

Laptop = expensive
SCSI = expensive

SCSI Laptop = "your available credit is $0.02"

 

[vegetation]

No need for scsi anyways -- 2.5" drives spin much slower than even the slowest 3.5" drive made 5 years ago.

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

I guess my friend is right after all, but does lappy use scsi nowadays when a customer request one or only in the past?

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

<< 2.5" fromfactor SCSI for laptop drive right Here.

About 1/3 the way down in "Conner" section. Look at "interface" column. there are also 2 in the "toshiba" section.

<edit>
Found one more thing. An adaptor to go from a 54 pin SCSI laptop hard drive to a regular 50 pin SCSI cable for data archival. HERE!
<another edit>
More crap Here

Is that enough >>



More than enough The real question here is: Is there any retailers or direct manufacturers (I.E. Dell) have built-in SCSI laptop for selling?

 

[jschuk]

The only way you will find SCSI in a modern laptop is through addon cards. A laptop could be connected to a deskstation (a box with PCI slots and space for a 5.25" and 3.5" drive) and have a SCSI card in the PCI slots. A laptop could also have a SCSI PCMCIA card used for connecting Zip drives and CD-Rom/CD-RW etc. I hadn't ever heard of SCSI laptop drives until I saw those miniscule drives listed at the data-recovery site.
Woohoo, 810MB of SCSI performance. You want HDD performance, put two HDD's into a laptop and find some software to setup a RAID config.

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

ok thanks everyone