Originally Posted by bendsley

You most certainly cannot be serious, can you? SCSI has not gone out of style what so ever. I just bought a server from Dell with 300gig SCSI drives at a little over $1000 a piece. It's a much faster interface than anything PATA or SATA, and the spindle speed is faster, 10,000rpm and 15,000rpm as compared to a fast SATA II drive spinning 10,000rpm max.

Also, one of the reason SCSI drives are so expensive is because they are hand touched at the factory, tested before shipping and carry a longer warranty (usually). Also, there aren't many devices out there for hotswapping SATA or PATA drives, while most devices SCSI2 and higher (SCSI 3 Ultrawide, U160, etc.) natively support hotswapping of drives.