[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[JF Mezei]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Just checked a local internet computer store, which mostly sell to 
> private and small business. Seagate Cheetah. 15K rpm, U320 SCSI, 80 pin 
> disk.
> Average seek time is 3.5ms. 300GB disk. Costs about $500. (Noone said 
> they were cheap.) 16MB internal cache on the disk.


Is there still a large market for standalone SCSI disks ? Wouldn't the
vast majority of SCSI drive be found installed in proprietary caddies
that go into disk arrays with the disk array manufacturer purchasing
those disks and ensuring the SCSI interface is the one that is
compatible with the disk array ?

When SCSI started to adopt different interfaces, it stopped being a
standard.