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The SCSI connector is abbreviated from Small Computer System Interface. Generally, it is a computer interface used for connecting peripheral devices such as external disk drives and scanners to personal computers and each other. This kind of connector consists of 25-50 individual signal paths (usually wires) bundles together and sharing a single connector plug.

Most workstations use the IDE or EIDE interface. Probably the reason is that IDE drives are cheaper than SCSI type devices. For most workstation usage, the IDE interface is more than adequate. But if high speed disk access is crucial, the choice should be SCSI. However, you cannot measure a system’s performance based on the CPU speed alone. This is especially true in the case of a server when tasks are not normally CPU bound, but are file I/O bound.