
General SCSI Specifications
Bus Width SCSI Standard
Maximum
Speed
Maximum
Length
Common Connectors
8-bit
(Narrow)
SCSI-1 5 MB/s
6m
(19.6 ft.)
Ribbon IDC 50
Internal 50-pin connector for hard drives, CD drives, etc.
Centronics 50
Popular 50-contact connector for external peripherals such as scanners
and tape drives.
DB25
External 25-pin connector used by Zip drives, scanners, and many Mac
devices.
DB50
External 50-pin connector used by Sun workstations.
SCSI-2
Fast SCSI,
Fast-10
10 MB/s
3m
(9.8 ft.)
Ribbon IDC 50
Internal 50-pin connector for hard drives, CD drives, etc.
Half Pitch DB50
External 50-pin host and peripheral connector used by Jaz drives and
many CD drives.
Ultra SCSI,
Fast-20
20 MB/s
1.5m
(4.9 ft.)
Ultra2 SCSI 40 MB/s
12m
(39 ft.)
16-bit
(Wide)
SCSI-2,
Fast Wide
SCSI,
Fast-10
20 MB/s
1.5m
(4.9 ft.)
Half Pitch DB68
Internal and external 68-pin connector used by most new hard drives. The
external version includes thumbscrews or latches.
Ultra Wide
SCSI,
Fast-20
40 MB/s
1.5m
(4.9 ft.)
SCSI-3,
Ultra2 Wide
(U2W) SCSI,
Ultra2 LVD
SCSI,
Fast-40
80 MB/s
12m
(39 ft.)
Half Pitch DB68
Low Voltage Differential (LVD) cables and accessories are required to
achieve peak performance with U2W drives.
Very High Density Centronics 68
68-pin contact connector used on many servers & RAID controllers.
SCA 80
80-contact connector used by SCA drives for RAID controllers
Ultra3 SCSI,
Ultra160/m
160 MB/s
12m
(39 ft.)
* Maximum SCSI bus length is 25m (82ft.) if all devices are HVD (Differential)
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