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Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?
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Thu, 25 May 2000 12:25:14 GMT
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Perhaps you are talking about a SCSI RAM drive ? this is a SCSI DVD RAM
Recorder .....I have never heard of SCSI RAM as in SCSI accessed RAM Memory
modules.. but I have seen SCSI DVD RAM drives ....They use thier own version of
recording media .... ( I could be totally wrong here as I have never actually
worked with any of such devices but I "think" this is what Dell is talking
about)
John
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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> > Does anyone know of a company that sells desktop PCs with SCSI RAM? It appears
> > that to get SCSI RAM at Dell, you need to get a workstation instead of a
> > Desktop...
> > TIA,
> > --Bram
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> Actually I never heard a thing like "SCSI RAM", but I'm not familiar
> with systems other than PCs, so it can be.
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> In case you mean a SCSI subsystem for HDD, CD-ROM and such devices, You
> may have it easily, although it might be quite expensive when compared
> to an EIDE sub system. First you need a separate controller (in EIDE
> case, you already have it with your motherboard, and yes, there are
> motherboards with onboard SCSI, but for an additional price, too) and
> second at the high end (20 gigs and more) SCSI HDDs are much more
> expensive than the EIDE ones.
> Performance increase is not worth the price paid I think, especially in
> these days of light speed EIDE/UDMA2 drives.
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> Selçuk
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| (...) of In the olden days before processors could address massive amounts of RAM, you could get cards and external peripherals that contained dynamic volatile RAM on a SCSI interface that would behave like very fast disk. It was used for video (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Actually I never heard a thing like "SCSI RAM", but I'm not familiar with systems other than PCs, so it can be. In case you mean a SCSI subsystem for HDD, CD-ROM and such devices, You may have it easily, although it might be quite expensive (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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