![]() Finding the drivers were, as you’d expect, a real pain. Plus it is just a really interesting look into the way things were. We doubt you really need to use a SCSI device as an everyday thing, but you might want to or need to read one that shows up. Of course, SCSI went serial like USB and modern serial-attached SCSI can blow the doors off even the fastest USB devices. USB 2 did a little better, but it would take USB 3 to eclipse the old SCSI data rate. Parallel SCSI used differential signaling and could reach up to 320 MB/s. One of the problems with these adapters is that SCSI was a high-performance bus for its day, and the corresponding USB speed was not so much. Of course, you have to wonder if a modern computer will support the device or will be able to load the drivers from the old CD. The key to the attempt is a USB to SCSI adapter which was unusual but not unheard of, and came across one from 1999. You can see how he did in the video below. But some old gear really loves their classic SCSI ports, and decided to try hooking some of them up to some modern computers. Now, advanced forms of SCSI are still around but there are other high-performing disk interfaces, too. There was a time when high-performance disk drives used SCSI - the Small Computer System Interface - and everything else was kid stuff.
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