 Small Computer System Interface, or SCSI,

(pronounced scuzzy), is a set of standards for

physically connecting and transferring data
between computers and peripheral devices.
 Interface - SCSI-1
 Specification
document - SCSI-1 (1986)
 Connector - IDC50; Centronics C50
 Width
(bits) – 8
 Clock - 5 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 5 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 40 Mbit/s
 Devices - 8
 Interface - Fast SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-2 (1994)
 Connector - IDC50; Centronics C50
 Width
(bits) – 8
 Clock - 10 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 10 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 80 Mbit/s
 Devices - 8
 Interface - Fast-Wide SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-2;
SCSI-3 SPI (1996)
 Connector - 2 x 50-pin (SCSI-2);
1 x 68-pin (SCSI-3)
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 10 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 20 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 160 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16
 Interface - Ultra SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI
 Connector - IDC50
 Width
(bits) – 8
 Clock - 20 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 20 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 160 Mbit/s
 Devices - 12
 Interface - Ultra Wide SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI
 Connector - 68-pin
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 20 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 40 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 320 Mbit/s
 Devices - 28
 Interface - Ultra2 SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI-2 (1997)
 Connector - 50-pin
 Width
(bits) – 8
 Clock - 40 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 40 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 320 Mbit/s
 Devices - 8
 Interface - Ultra2 Wide SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI-2
 Connector - 68-pin; 80-pin
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 40 MHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 80 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 640 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16
 Double data rate: a computer bus operating
with double data rate transfers data on both the
rising and falling edges of the clock signal.
 Interface - Ultra3 SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI-3 (1999)
 Connector - 68-pin; 80-pin
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 40 MHz DDR
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 160 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 1280 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16
 Interface - Ultra-320 SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI-4 (2002)
 Connector - 68-pin; 80-pin
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 80 MHz DDR
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 320 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 2560 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16
 Interface - Ultra-640 SCSI
 Specification
document - SCSI-3 SPI-5 (2003)
 Connector - 68-pin; 80-pin
 Width
(bits) – 16
 Clock - 160 MHz DDR
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 640 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 5120 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16
 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a computer bus
used to move data to and from computer
storage devices such as hard drives and tape
drives.
 SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol
that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology
that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data
centers and workstations, and it uses the
standard SCSI command set.
 Interface - SAS
 Width
(bits) – 1
 Clock - 3 GHz
 Bandwidth (MB/s) - 300 MB/s
 Bandwidth (Mbit/s) - 2400 Mbit/s
 Devices - 16,256