SCSI

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SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a set of standards for connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, widely used for high-performance storage solutions.

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Observed surface forms (9)

Surface form Occurrences
Parallel SCSI 4
Small Computer System Interface 3
SCSI-1 2

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf computer bus standard
interface standard
storage interface
abbreviationFor SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: Small Computer System Interface
addressingScheme target-lun model
cableType ribbon cable (parallel SCSI)
shielded serial cable (SAS)
commandSetUsedBy Serial Attached SCSI
USB
surface form: USB Attached SCSI

iSCSI
competesWith ATA
Fibre Channel
ATA
surface form: SATA
dataTransferMode parallel
serial
designedFor high-throughput data transfer
low-latency data access
fullName SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: Small Computer System Interface
influenced Serial Attached SCSI
SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: iSCSI
introducedInDecade 1980s
layer block-level storage protocol
maxDevicesPerBus 16 (wide SCSI including host)
8 (narrow SCSI including host)
primaryUse connecting computers and peripheral devices
high-performance storage solutions
standardFamily SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: Parallel SCSI

SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: SCSI-1

SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: SCSI-2

SCSI self-linksurface differs
surface form: SCSI-3

Serial Attached SCSI
iSCSI
standardizedBy ANSI
supports CD-ROM drives
RAID subsystems
hard disk drives
optical drives
printers
removable media drives
scanners
tape drives
supportsFeature bus arbitration
command queuing
device addressing
error detection
error recovery
logical unit numbers
multiple devices on a single bus
typicalUseCase enterprise storage systems
servers
workstations

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

SCSI abbreviationFor SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Small Computer System Interface
SAS basedOn SCSI
this entity surface form: SCSI protocol
this entity surface form: Parallel SCSI
IEEE 1394 competesWith SCSI
SAS-1 follows SCSI
this entity surface form: Parallel SCSI
SCSI fullName SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Small Computer System Interface
SCSI influenced SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: iSCSI
Macintosh II interface SCSI
this entity surface form: SCSI (early models)
this entity surface form: Parallel SCSI
SCSI standardFamily SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: SCSI-1
SCSI standardFamily SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: SCSI-2
SCSI standardFamily SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: SCSI-3
SCSI standardFamily SCSI self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Parallel SCSI
INCITS standardizes SCSI
this entity surface form: Small Computer System Interface
this entity surface form: SCSI-1
subject surface form: Solaris
this entity surface form: SCSI CD-ROM
FC supportsProtocol SCSI
subject surface form: Fibre Channel