Why NO scsi DVD Writers

[rebonn]

Why am I having such a hard time finding a late model scsi DVD burner with a good software bundle?
All I can seem to find is older DVD Ram drives with outdated software or very expensive authoring drives.
I have no internal slots available and am wanting to replace my scsi
CD-R. It looks as though I'll have to get a firewire card and get something like an external Sony combo drive.
I just find it odd that there are no scsi DVD writers other than old or authoring drives.

thanks
rb

[makntraks]

Check Plextor. I believe they make a SCSI model....

Will be more $$$ than an internal or USB/Firewire model though....

[rebonn]

Nope. Plextor does not offer a scsi dvd-r.
Nobody does. That's my point. Why?
Only a few outdated scsi DVD writers or authoring drives can be found.

rb

[bugster]

Maybe its because current DVD burners are being aimed at the consumer market. Consumer level PC's don't support SCSI, nor could they cope with the extra cost SCSI imposes.

[rebonn]

Out of all the companies and models of DVD writers, not a single drive!
There's a slew of scsi DVD Roms and CD-Rs, consumer or not.

[Gazorgan]

Low Demand. Remember, origianally all CD drives were SCSI. IDE doesn't support CD/DVD drives worth a dam (25% overhead versus 3% overhead for a SCSI drive), it's all a patch to make them work. Sounds terrible for the number of drives out there, but it's true.

Why invest in the cost to produce a SCSI drive when you won't sell more than a few 1000's of units? That's why you can't find one. There are still CDRW SCSI drives, because that's what the bulk duplicators use. It's also what CDR towers use (although you can image the drive so much easier!). When my 16x4x16 SCSI drive died, I couldn't find a replacement for under $300.

[psx_pirate]

why not just buy a pci-eide card then use an eide drive .... easy

[lordsmurf]

Aren't DVD-Authoring drives by Pioneer SCSI? At least one of them? The first one, I think.

[spiderman2k1]

Pioneer has one that goes for $3,699.00 and it's slow LOL

http://www.meritline.com/pidvdbu.html

[freestyler]

The drive is slow because it's been out since 99 / 2000

[thayne]

Because scsi is dying. It can't really compete with new IDE and serialATA drives due to it's much higher cost and will soon be gone altogether.

[bugster]

Because scsi is dying. It can't really compete with new IDE and serialATA drives due to it's much higher cost and will soon be gone altogether.

Actally, its only really dying in the consumer arean. Its still pretty widley used in servers.

[rebonn]

No room inside computer.
My scsi card has an external port. That would have been easy.
It looks like I'll have to get a firewire card and an external drive or
take out a good working Plextor scsi CDR drive (probably sell it) and use the slot for an IDE DVD-R.

why not just buy a pci-eide card then use an eide drive .... easy