SCSI Ancient and near obsolete Hardware!!!

[MickTheLip]

Went around our local computer shops looking for SCSI terminators and basically a big no and responses as above.Is it me caught in a time warp or what?SCSI nearly Extinct  and obsolete so where can I get some SCSI terminators.

[Amiduffer]

I have some, both 25 and 50 pin SCSI terminators. PM me. I'll let you have it for the cost of postage.

Yep, SCSI is obsolete technology.

[Piru]

SATA has pretty much killed SCSI.

[MickTheLip]

Any Idea How much postage would be to the UK? I was hoping to get some overhere surely they cannot be that rare allready?

MickTheLip wrote:
Went around our local computer shops looking for SCSI terminators and basically a big no and responses as above.Is it me caught in a time warp or what?SCSI nearly Extinct  and obsolete so where can I get some SCSI terminators.

Watch Item number: 280089667171 on eBay

It is located in the UK.

[terminator4]

Piru wrote:
SATA has pretty much killed SCSI.

SCSI is not obsolete.  The latest filers and servers all use Iscsi.  You need to read up on this, and its better than SATA.  SCSI for desktop is killed because unlike old days no one will spend $200+ on hard disk.  Remember the days where storage was expensive...

[MickTheLip]

                   


             @Eslapian

Thanks for spotting that auction.Needless to say I've bought it.

[adolescent]

iSCSI isn't a hardware type, but a network protocol.  (For instance, you will not find a iSCSI HD or tape drive.)  (Parallel) SCSI is pretty close to dead.  SATA/SAS has already taken it's place in even the low-midrange server/storage market.  The high end has been owned by FC for some time now.

[MickTheLip]

Yes I remember the days OK! For what I paid for my first IDE 10gig HDD I can now get a 200gig HDD.I was actually trying to point out how many computer shops in my area seem to think SCSI is dead and gone and offer only the other HDD flavours.Never mind hopefully I'm now sorted.Probably going to get it cheaper as well.

[Tomas]

Piru wrote:
SATA has pretty much killed SCSI.

SATA is still inferior to SCSI on areas like multitasking. SCSI is still used on high end servers, while SATA is mainly used on workstations and maybe on small office servers.

The only reason why scsi is not more widely adopted in home market and in smaller companies is due to it being quite a bit more expensive.

@MickTheLip

At your service  :-)

[weirdami]

I, too, have those terminator dealies you can have for shipping. Will ship anywhere that pays with paypal. :-) PMail me if those other dudes are nothin' doin'.

[Tahoe]

Adolescent is bang on: SCSI is not obsolete; but 50/68 pin and soon 80 pin drives are.

15K SCSI drives are still very often used in servers and highperformance SAN environments. These are all bases on SAS technology; and there is no way of connecting those to your Amiga. (Serial Attached SCSI)

Higher-end drives are all Fiber Channel technology.

Computer stores (specially here in Holland) haven't been stocked well coming to SCSI; but terminators are still to be found; even the 25pin ones. But if I need one I have to look at specialist stores catering towards the server market.

iSCSI is a very interesting development. I use it at work; to fiddle around. Basically what you get is a LAN port (even interconnected with switches) directly on your SAN. If you get an iSCSI compatible network card it means a server can boot from your SAN without having ANY physical drives attached.

[McVenco]

MickTheLip wrote:
Yes I remember the days OK! For what I paid for my first IDE 10gig HDD I can now get a 200gig HDD.

"Remember the days"? Man, that seems only yesterday to me. :-)

I remember my first harddisk, costed me 200 Euro (or 450 old faithful dutch guilders). And I could make a backup of it with 50 floppies! :lol:

[aggro_mix]

Maybe a bit OT but I wish someone would make a DMA capable IDE interface for the zorro slots. Is it really that hard?