[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <506f1431$0$1226$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> Is there still a large market for standalone SCSI disks ? 

Was there ever 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.

Neither of the "S"s in SCSI stands for "standard".  :-)