[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Dave McGuire]

On 1/9/25 00:49, Joshua Boyd via rescue wrote:
> It appears to me that there are now numerous options for brand new SCSI 
> SSDs (well SCSI to SD protocol converters).  Their compatibility is 
> probably not perfect.

   I currently have about a dozen of those new SCSI mass storage 
devices, running in lots of different things.  Their compatibility seems 
to be fine, from an admittedly small sample set of probably eight 
different things.  But they're "exotic" things like VAXen and lab 
instruments, which I consider to be acid tests.

   So let Mouse be as curmudgeonly as he wants, we'll keep using our new 
SCSI drives. :)

> There are also new SCSI Ethernet adapters.  These 
> things aren't at the level of performance and capability that I'd like, 
> but they are heading in interesting directions, and I hope they will get 
> there.  I wish I had the time to dedicate to working on that sort of 
> hardware.

   They've been there for a while.  The newer ones, like the ZuluSCSI 
RP2040, can saturate an 8-bit SCSI bus.

   I didn't know about SCSI Ethernet adapters.  That's neat.

> There certainly aren't much in the way of options for brand new SCSI 
> spinning hard drives.  Nor SCSI optical drives.  Personally, I'm not 
> overly bummed as I'm much rather various SSD options over spinning rust, 
> and I mostly only use optical drives for ripping their content.  I am 
> not trying to make a SS20 be my main file server hosting a 40TB file 
> system, although that would be cool, and I kinda would like to try it.

   I do detest that term; it has never been "rust".  Apparently you've 
not yet been bitten by the comparatively very short lifetimes of even 
high-end SSDs.  I have, and I strongly prefer spinning drives for 
storing anything that can't be easily replaced.  So, NVMe for system 
disks, arrays of spinning drives for irreplaceable (like 
locally-generated, not movies and PDFs that I can just re-download) data.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA