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Originally Posted by Blas
I have an old 386/25 Dominion desktop computer with 1 Meg of ram and a 5.25” floppy disk if you want to upgrade the server?
Actually, SCSI was/is a very hi level interface system designed to last a long time. Still used today. Quite reliable actually…. Just old.
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Parallel scsi died 20 years ago. It was replaced by SAS(Serial Attached SCSI). SAS drives are more expensive but you can use SATA drives on SAS controllers. A SAS controller will easily cost 10x what a sata controller costs and I don't know of any chip set that doesn't include sata.
Yes Parallel scsi was the enterprise storage interconnect. Fiber channel had more connectivity. But if you really have scsi drives they're 20 years old ant not trustworthy
Of those 55 years in computer hardware I built disk drives since 1979. I built the first 1Gb SCSI drive at DEC, We charged OEMs 1000 each. They got what they could. Storage was pricy then. I was a member of T10 the SCSI committee.
I wrote major parts of the SATA spec at Maxtor and Seagate. 8 patents. Built the first fully integrated SATA chip and drive. Later worked on the 5Gb USB3 spec the signaling was heavily leveraged from SATA. Also a major contributor to the USB-C spec. My group did the first working pinout for a no-left or right plus no up or down cable. Just plug it in and it works.