Sun Microsystems SCSI external cable

Advantages: Very portable, Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Extra plug socket needed

...Having two seperate office locations, my company got fed up of having to burn CD's to transfer large amounts of data from one place to another. This worked out OK for a while, but with a CD only being able to store up to 700MB, we were spending quite a lot of time burning the disks, so an external HDD was in order. We had used external SCSI disks in the past, but there were a few disadvantages involved, namely having to physically shut the computer down to remove the device and then having to shut down the second machine to attach the disk at the second place. The price for SCSI disks are still a bit expensive as well. We got hold of this external drive, and our work methods were transformed overnight. No more restarting machines or burning cd's, just plug it in and copy as if it was an internal disk. Installation was very... Read review

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Advantages: nothing comes to mind
Disadvantages: no raw writing, questionable reliability record

...I had this as a replacment to a faulty 4260 model. It looks much the same and feels the same but reading is 16x instead of 6x and writing is twice as fast for CDRW CDs at 4x. Normal CDRs remain at 4x writing. The drive does everything it claims to do and seems less fussy over CDRs than the 4260. It doesn't do raw writing but does happily work with 80min cdrs and overburning. It has a built in fan which I'm sure is beneficial compared to the 4260 which didn't. I had some problems configuring it but this is probably more to do with scsi than anything else. I personally would have prefered the old style scsi large connectors on the external case, they seem to make better contact and are more robust but this case has the more flimsy 50pin high denisty scsi 2 type connectors. I've yet to see it do CDRW CDs at 4x as I think most of the ones I... Read review

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Advantages: NEBS compliant, 1U Ultra SCSI disk cage.
Disadvantages: EOL was 2002

...Here we have a handy little 1U disk cage, which will take up to three Ultra SCSI drives. Oh, and it's NEBS compliant, so you can put in datacenters and telephone exchanges. SCSI ports - Two single-ended ports, 68-pin SCSI connector - Can be daisy chained via port (2 max in a chain) Power - The disk cage can be powered by AC or DC power. (I used the AC model) which has an auto sensing power supply - takes 100 to 240 VAC. There is also a DC model, to go with the Netra range... The DC model will take -48 to -60 VDC. Drives - The drives are inserted at the front of the 19" rack mounted unit, SCA disks, on Sun SPUD type brackets. The SCSI bays are either ID 2,3&4 or 10,11&12 which is flexible enough if you have to chain two together. Uses - People will find these most useful as a chassis to put boot disks... Read review

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