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by justsomehnguy 760 days ago
> SCSI (isn't that what SATA basically is anyway?),

Nope, there is a lot of differences (Wiki would help on the details), most notably is what SATA was designed to be cheap from the start, including the controller complexity; while SCSI demands a quite intelligent controller, which costs more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Comparison_to_other_inter...