SCSI mobo for AMD cpu, are there any?

[andreadebiase]

Interestingly, I was looking into motherboards with a scsi connector and found out two things:
1) they are very expensive
2) I didn`t see any that goes with AMD cpu

is this true?

[pentachris]

After much searching around, I finally found an older Socket A board with SCSI connectors on board. The MSI K7T Master (MS-6347). I was surprised not to find more. :confused:

[rond36]

You can add a SCSI card but they cost more than most motherboards. Not only are SCSI motherboards and cards expensive but the drives are outrageous 180GB EIDE = $160 vs 180GB SCSI = $1,140 If you do buy a SCSI card be sure it is a 32 bit PCI 33MHz standalone card. Most newer cards are 64 bit PCI-X 66 or 133MHz and will not fit in a standard PCI slot and some are just RAID controllers to be used with the SCSI interface on the motherboard.

I think SCSI is finally going to die out and be replaced by S-ATA.

[pave_spectre]

SCSI interfaces seemed to make a brief foray into the home/desktop market with the original Athlon Thunderbird and PII/PIII, but the cost of drives was prohibittive. I only know one guy who managed to find a SCSI CD-R/W.

I dont think SCSI will die out for a while yet in the business/server market until S-ATA proves itself to be a fully suitable and reliable replacement.

[Rick]

Plextor makes a nice cd-rw in scsi

Will scsi die ?

Not any time soon for sure.
It is still the fastest (360) and Most reliable

s-ata = 4 drives
scsi = 16 plus devices :)

[iisbob]

Actually SATA offers the oppertunity to connect an ulimited no# of drives-depends on the mobo & it's connector layout; it produces less heat that similar SCSI interfaces, cost less-and offers the same/somewhat improved performance than SCSI.

But dont rule SCSI out; they're working on a SSCSI interface ( serial SCSI ), where the next gen of SCSI & SATA drives will be hot-swappable & interchangeable.

Personaly i'm keeping my SCSI seagate 60 GB's drives ( in a RAID 5 config ) in my home server until at least SATAII standard with 15k drives and support for other RAID levels than just stryping or mirroring ( 1, 0 )-until then i'll stick to my single 36.7 GB Raptor at 10k ;)