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And the controllers...Man were they expensive! With few exceptions. One was an Asus SCSI-U2W controller that was listed (and bought by me) at a fraction of the Adaptec rip-offs.
And boy, were the 15K Cheetahs NOOOOISSEEEEEY
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SCSI had many advantages ... performance, reliability, and the ability to externalize multiple devices on a single chain. Times have changed though. I started with SCSI with a Bernouli drive connected to a Mac Classic and then went onto PC SCSI RAID in the early 90's.
<TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>
Sure. I started with an A590 SCSI/ST506 and memory board. Sooooo many had ST506 drives while the controller allowed for SCSI as well but them Quantum drives (42mB was tha bomb) were to expensive.
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