What's the current SCSI standard anyway?
U/W III?
SCSI is made up of 2 parts the physical and the protocols.
So SCSI I, II, III etc are protocols.
Fast, wide, ultrawide, and ultra2 etc are more t do with the hardware connections.
Also SSA and FC-AL are serial storage soloutions that use SCSI protocols. These are great if you want terrabytes of storage connected to a PC.
Problem with the physical side is the names just get sillier, I expect one day we will get "considerably fast than your SCSI".
Bottom line for DV editing is cheap modern IDE drives are upto the job so why spend all that extra money on SCSI?
I like SCSI,
From 1996 I have an old Adaptec 2940AU card, and a Segate 21 GB harddrive.
Windows performance is unparalel from UDMA66 to my SCSI drive.
I just want to know what is the current hardware standart, is it U2W?
Ultra 2 wide looks like the latest flavour to me, but someone migh know better.
If you want to know ANYTHING about SCSI, the place to go is Adaptec's site - www.adaptec.com.
There, I feel sure, you'll be able to find out all you want to know about the latest 160 SCSI standard.
Oh, as for your SCSI drive of circa 96 outperforming your ATA/66 drive - what speeds are you getting on each of them?
Are you getting the 22-25MB/sec that we've seen on some large, modern ATA drives?
Bob C