SCSI connector

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A SCSI connector ( SKUZ-ee) is used to connect computer parts that communicate with each other via the SCSI standard. Generally, two connectors, designated male and female, plug together to form a connection that allows two components, such as a computer and a disk drive, to communicate with each other. SCSI connectors can be electrical or optical connectors. There have been a large variety of SCSI connectors in use at one time or another in the computer industry. Manufacturers have frequently chosen connectors based on factors of size, cost, or convenience at the expense of compatibility. Twenty-five years of evolution and three major revisions of the standards resulted in requirements for Parallel SCSI connectors that could handle an 8, 16 or 32 bit wide bus running at 5, 10 or 20 megatransfers per second, with single-ended or differential signaling. Serial SCSI added another three transport types, each with one or more connector types. SCSI makes use of cables to connect devices. In a typical example, a socket on a computer motherboard would have one end of a cable plugged into it, while the other end of the cable is plugged into a disk drive. Some cables have different types of connectors on them, and some cables can have as many as 16 connectors (allowing 16 devices to be wired together). Different types of connectors may be used for devices inside a computer cabinet than for external devices such as scanners or external disk drives.