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What is SCSI and its variations?

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What is SCSI and its variations?

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SCSI (pronounced scuzzy) stands for Small Computer Standard Interface, and is a method for connecting devices such as hard drives, CD/DVD players, CD/DVD burners, scanners and tape drives to your computer. SCSI in general is a very fast method for transferring large amounts of information to and from your computer. Over the years, the SCSI standard has been revised to provide faster standards of communication, and each revision has been given a new name, such as SCSI-II and SCSI-3, as well as SCSI-wide, et cetera. A well designed SCSI card can move 160 Megabytes of information per second, besting almost all the other forms of data communications normally used at the desktop level. Additionally, the current SCSI standards permit inter-device communication without the interaction of the computer, so information can be moved from a SCSI hard drive to another SCSI hard drive or DVD burner without slowing down the computer.