Firewire will never kill SCSI because there are some things that SCSI does better. Current SCSI interface speeds are higher, and the SCSI protocol is much more intelligent than the serial Firewire protocol. I mean, sure, you can connect 63 hard drives to one Firewire port, but what would your CPU usage look like? A major advantage of SCSI is that I/O is intelligently handled by a dedicated processor.
Technical merits aside, the currently installed base alone is enough to keep SCSI going for more than two years. Don't hold your breath waiting for Firewire RAID.
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Technical merits aside, the currently installed base alone is enough to keep SCSI going for more than two years. Don't hold your breath waiting for Firewire RAID.