Is SCSI dead?

Posted Apr 6, 2025 19:49 UTC (Sun) by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188)
In reply to: Is SCSI dead? by zdzichu
Parent article: Updates on storage standards

USB Attached SCSI and Universal Flash Storage use SCSI, but I’m unsure what the advantage of using SCSI in these fields is.

Is SCSI dead?

Posted Apr 7, 2025 4:30 UTC (Mon) by cladisch (✭ supporter ✭, #50193) [Link] (1 responses)

All other storage standards (ATAPI, SATA, SAS, USB MSC) are just mechanisms to move SCSI commands.

Is SCSI dead?

Posted Apr 8, 2025 9:35 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

SATA's not just a transport for SCSI commands; for SATA HDDs and SSDs, there's a specific SATA command set, separate to SCSI.

ATAPI over SATA is, however, just a transport for SCSI commands.