Charles Darke | 9 January 2009I'm the proud owner of two new Adaptec 39160 SCSI cards. They came up for sale on ebay and being a bit of a digital magpie, I bought them.
Having bought them, I'm now wondering whether SCSI is now obsolete. SATA is very fast and best price/performance is offered by SATA and PATA drives. There are still some high performance SCSI drives, but these are generally enterprise drives and priced accordingly.
For other peripherals such as CDROMs, these too are going from IDE to SATA. There still appears to be some SCSI scanners, but most of these peripherals are turning to USB.
I bought the adapter because I wanted to get a tape drive. These appear to be the only peripheral where SCSI still reigns supreme. Probably since tape backup was never really adopted by home users.
I wonder if there is any role left for SCSI now.
Having bought them, I'm now wondering whether SCSI is now obsolete. SATA is very fast and best price/performance is offered by SATA and PATA drives. There are still some high performance SCSI drives, but these are generally enterprise drives and priced accordingly.
For other peripherals such as CDROMs, these too are going from IDE to SATA. There still appears to be some SCSI scanners, but most of these peripherals are turning to USB.
I bought the adapter because I wanted to get a tape drive. These appear to be the only peripheral where SCSI still reigns supreme. Probably since tape backup was never really adopted by home users.
I wonder if there is any role left for SCSI now.
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most of the new servers i order come with SAS controllers.
Written by Guest: Nick T at 7:38pm, 28 January 2009.most of the new servers i order come with SAS controllers.
That's true, and I guess a continuation of the new form of SCSI superseding the older ones. I guess with SAS, you get the best of both worlds as you can use high performance SAS drives but still have the option of using the more cost-effective consumer SATA drives.
Written by Charles Darke at 8:22pm, 28 January 2009.
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