{"id":140,"date":"1997-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"scsi-what-what-differences","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/scsi-what-what-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"SCSI What?? What Are The Differences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have written to us wondering about the different SCSI formats, which is best for digital audio, which is fastest, etc. Naturally, inSync has the answers! Here&#8217;s our recipe for SCSI soup:    SCSI Type  SCSI bus width  SCSI bus speeds (max data rate)    SCSI  8 bit  5 MB\/second    Fast SCSI  8 bit  10 MB\/second    Fast Wide SCSI  16 bit  20 MB\/second    Ultra SCSI  8 bit  20 MB\/second    Wide Ultra SCSI  16 bit  40 MB\/second    Ultra2 SCSI  8 bit  40 MB\/second    Keep in mind that the &#8220;maximum data rate&#8221; spec listed above is exactly that, the VERY BEST you can hope for. The system&#8217;s actual mileage will vary depending on configuration, but will always fall somewhere BELOW this figure. As a benchmark, when working with 44.1 kHz digital audio, each track will require 5 MB\/minute, or around 85 KB\/second. Sixteen tracks will require around 1.3 MB\/second.One other point: It will do no good to install a Wide Ultra SCSI host adapter board in your computer and then use a regular SCSI drive with it &#8211; the slowest link in the chain will determine the data throughput for the whole system. Be sure your drive is matched in capability to your SCSI host adapter board, and your data speed requirements. The key figure to be concerned with is the &#8220;sustained transfer rate&#8221; for the drive (see today&#8217;s WFTD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the SCSI What?? 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