Why was SCSI(scuzzy) Discontinued?

[DanTekGeek]

I have a SCSI drive on one of my PCs, and its insanley fast. Unfotunatly, as everyone has said, the cost is prohibitve for upgrades or really anything else.

 

[Sun Baked]

A quick look at bare drives at Fry's electronics...

A Seagate SCSI drive is about $659.99 for a 149GB 10k drive and $159.99 for a 36GB 10k RPM drive

While it's $149.99 for 200GB 7.2k RPM PATA drive or a 40GB 5.4k drive for $59.95

While it's $139.99 for 200GB 7.2k RPM SATA drive or a 40GB 5.4k drive for $99.95

Anybody want to buy a $660 bare 149GB SCSI drive for their computer? or spend much less for a 400GB SATA drive...

or be a cheapskate an buy a $50 60GB drive?

Wasn't too different when we first started getting IDE drives.

Of course with SCSI it was rather easy to add drive externally, even though we had problems -- FW made adding drive a cake walk.

 

[pigbat]

SCSI is still used in many-an-external-device.
At work we use LTO 2 drives as backup drives, which are connected to the backup servers via SCSI connectors.

Aren't those LTO 2 drives sweet? We have ours fiber attached and I'm amazed at how fast we can do backups.

 

[bousozoku]

Eh?

FireWire slow?

Compared to what, Enterprise E??

Yes, FireWire is slow. 50 MB/second compared to the standard Ultra2SCSI drive in my 1999 blue and white G3 which runs at 80 MB/second or an UltraSCSI320 drive which runs at 320 MB/second or...you get the picture.

saabmp3:

Integrated Drive Electronics don't mean Intelligent Drive Electronics, if you get my meaning. The CPU still has to shuffle the data in between devices, whereas SCSI devices worked pretty much independently of the CPU. IDE/E-IDE does it faster but it doesn't do it efficiently, never achieving anywhere near the quoted data rate--UltraATA/100 rarely achieves more than 66 MB/sec.

 

[Littleodie914]

Heh... I remember using a SCSI PCI card in our old B&W G3... We still have a Lacie CD burner lying around here somewhere. While it was pretty fast, it had its disadvantages:

• Unable to provide power to devices
• VERY not hot-pluggable
• Huge, bulky cables

I didn't mind sacrificing speed for a few new features

 

[bangstudios]

Those were the days... My first SCSI CD burner... a Philips. It did 2x, I was the hero of the neighborhood. Blank CD-Rs were $20. You usually left the room when Toast (by Astarte) was on duty.

SCSI in Macs - I'm so glad it's been terminated.

Oh man! Does THAT bring back memories! You had a CDD-521 (enhanced) or CDD-522? My first burner was a SCSI CDW900 (Sony). I was VERY careful when burning a disk: $25 was a big investment!

(And yes, I'm glad those days are long gone as well!)

 

[ReanimationLP]

Simple. Because PATA and SATA caught up to it, and was a lot cheaper too!

 

[Peterkro]

I still have a Plextor Scuzzy burner in my old PC.In past times it was he only thing that could copy anything(nothing illegal you understand)it must be ten years old now and still the latest Liteons et al can't do things it could.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Aren't those LTO 2 drives sweet? We have ours fiber attached and I'm amazed at how fast we can do backups.

Yep. They're excellent. Fast, and easy to use. Pretty cheap too.