[ Serial-attached SCSI!
Good to see SCSI’s not dead. ]
The hardware is dead, thankfully, the protocol is still alive and well!
There was a time it seemed like they were coming out with a new SCSI cable type every month...
There's a lot of good stuff in the tech (and protocol).
Back years ago (I think before I ever got a multicore CPU), I had an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card — anyway, one day a friend needed to do some work ripping & naming songs on a collection of CDs so we started ripping to a shared folder on a SCSI-drive so he sat in the other room accessing new rips to listen to and renaming them while I did work on my computer (IIRC is was fairly processor intensive)… no discernible slowdown in disk-access, CPU-performance, or rip-quality.
Performance like that was worth the extra bucks for SCSI on my desktop.