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    Parallel SCSI (formally, SCSI Parallel Interface, or SPI) is the earliest of the interface implementations in the SCSI family. SPI is a parallel bus; there...
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  • pragmatic and addressed toward commercial requirements. The initial Parallel SCSI was most commonly used for hard disk drives and tape drives, but it...
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  • Parallel SCSI (SCSI Parallel Interface SPI) allows for attachment of up to 8 devices (8-bit Narrow SCSI) or 16 devices (16-bit Wide SCSI) to the SCSI...
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    drives, solid-state drives and tape drives. SAS replaces the older Parallel SCSI (Parallel Small Computer System Interface, usually pronounced "scuzzy" )...
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  • including parallel ATA (PATA, also called IDE or EIDE; described before the introduction of SATA as ATA), Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)...
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    disks use Parallel SCSI, Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI. The peripheral controller integrated on PATA (IDE), Serial ATA, Parallel SCSI or Serial...
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    In a typical parallel SCSI subsystem, each device has assigned to it a unique numerical ID. As a rule, the host adapter appears as SCSI ID 7, which gives...
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  • In computer data storage, a SCSI initiator is the endpoint that initiates a SCSI session, that is, sends a SCSI command over a network. The initiator...
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  • SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) is a protocol for more modern SCSI enclosure products. An initiator can communicate with the enclosure using a specialized...
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    set of features from SCSI which the ATA version attempts to emulate. However, support for these is extremely rare in actual parallel ATA products and device...
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  • applications. Apple intended FireWire to be a serial replacement for the parallel SCSI bus, while providing connectivity for digital audio and video equipment...
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    interface cables such as SATA (Serial ATA), USB, SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), or PATA (Parallel ATA) cables. The first production IBM hard disk drive, the 350...
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    System Interface (SCSI), Hard disk drive and tape drive peripheral attachment bus Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and other serial SCSI buses Thunderbolt Yapbus...
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    terminator. All parallel SCSI units use terminators. SCSI is primarily used for storage and backup. An active terminator is a type of single-ended SCSI terminator...
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    Model 44 had a 32-bit width. Legacy computer peripheral buses: ISA, ATA, SCSI, PCI, and the once-ubiquitous IEEE-1284 / Centronics "printer port" Laboratory...
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    by SATA due to higher data transfer rates and greater reliability. Parallel SCSI: An interface primarily used in servers, with speeds ranging from 40...
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  • ISCSI (redirect from Internet SCSI)
    Interface (iSCSI; /aɪˈskʌzi/ eye-SKUZ-ee) is an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. iSCSI provides block-level...
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    SATA (section SATA and SCSI)
    slower 1.5 Gbit/s speed. Parallel SCSI uses a more complex bus than SATA, usually resulting in higher manufacturing costs. SCSI buses also allow connection...
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    NCR 53C9x (category SCSI)
    l3I-I986 SCSI-1 protocol, implementing the eight bit parallel SCSI bus and eight bit host data bus transfers. The 53CF94 and 53CF96 added SCSI-2 support...
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    connector - used for 36-pin printer ports (IEEE 1284 - Centronics) and 50-pin SCSI ports. DIN 41612 connector – used for Eurocard buses. PCB transition headers...
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  • Fibre Channel (redirect from 10GFC Parallel)
    including SCSI, HIPPI and ESCON. Fibre Channel was designed as a serial interface to overcome limitations of the SCSI and HIPPI physical-layer parallel-signal...
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    drive with both SCSI and IEEE 1284 connections; SCSI ID limited to ID 5 and 6). Parallel port external Zip drives are actually SCSI drives with an integrated...
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    DAS. The main protocols used for DAS connections are Parallel ATA, SATA, eSATA, NVMe, Parallel SCSI, SAS, USB, and IEEE 1394. Most functions found in modern...
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    host adapter and the backplane. Alternatively SCSI Enclosure Services can be used. With Parallel SCSI subsystems, SAF-TE is used. A single-board computer...
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  • Tagged Command Queuing (category SCSI)
    implement the SCSI protocol might not permit the use of all 64 bits. For example, older parallel SCSI permits 8 bits of tag bits, iSCSI permits up to...
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    internal version was available with IDE or SCSI interfaces. The external version was available with parallel, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces. This removable-disk...
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  • serial interfaces (e.g. Serial Attached SCSI or USB) are preferred over parallel interfaces (e.g. parallel SCSI).[citation needed] Clock drift Jitter Skewness...
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  • disk enclosures via parallel SCSI, while modern models (as of 2009[update]) use fibre channel and SAS (Serial Attach SCSI) SCSI transport protocols....
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    one of a number of different sources, for example when terminating a parallel SCSI bus, a very simple circuit like this can be used: In digital electronics...
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  • Disk array controller (category SCSI)
    they initially required expensive Parallel SCSI hard drives and aimed at the server and high-end computing market. SCSI technology advantages include allowing...
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