[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Joshua Boyd]

On 1/8/25 20:56, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:
> On January 8, 2025 8:49:52 PM John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 8, 2025, at 16:34, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>> ?On 1/8/25 14:56, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>>> As a technical geek, I prefer SCSI too.  I'm sad at how close to dead
>>>> it appears to be.
>>> Nah, SCSI is doing fine.  There have been many transports for SCSI, beyond parallel:
>>>
>>> - SAS
>>> - USB
>>> - FireWire
>>> - FibreChannel
>>> - SSA (IBM)
>>>
>>> It needn't be a parallel interface on a 50-pin IDC connector to be "SCSI".
>>>
>>> And make no mistake, it needed to make the transition to serial, regardless of the specific transport mechanism.  There were skew problems in parallel SCSI in U320; scaling it past that and avoiding skew while still making cables simple and affordable just wasn't practical.
>> No love for iSCSI? I worked for 10 years for a company (and later a DELL division): EqualLogic, which made iSCSI arrays that would cluster themselves and serve up data through multiple gig/10gig connections. Wonderful product.  Unfortunately iSCSI seems to have been a bit of a fad...
>    I knew I was forgetting one!  I always found iSCSI a bit odd, and perhaps overdesigned, but yes, it's absolutely SCSI too.

I feel like I hear more about iSCSI for VMs and netbooting these days 
than I do FC.  People are saying that iSCSI will be replaced with 
NVMeoF, but I don't know how long that will take.

For storage servers, I think there is a lot to be said for SAS SSDs over 
NVMe SSDs, and as such would think it reasonable to stick with iSCSI 
over NVMeoF.

Can't say that I've heard much about iSCSI (or SAS) scanners or printers 
though. ;)