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Whoever this Seagate person was told you wrong. SCSI still exists, but it now has moved to the same setup as ATA, to Serial. Now SCSI is being made primarily as SAS, Serial Attached SCSI which is much faster that the old SCSI interfaces (doing up to 3 Gb/s, about 10 times the speed of the old U320). So, SCSI still exists, it's just faster now.

I am reasonably familiar with SAS and I have been following prices of SAS controllers for a while. My motherboard has only four PCIe slots and there is one left. Whether something could be crammed in there is another question. But, no, the Seagate person and I were talking about the same thing. I'm sorry if my paraphrase of what he said was confusing. What he actually said was "Nobody is making SCSI!" (Meaning U320.) This was someone at their presales support.

In an ideal world I would just get a SAS controller and a drive or three. But I can hardly afford another drive, let alone a controller. I was hoping to get another U320 for installing Windows 7.

And actually U320 is still faster than 3 GHz SAS, not slower, at least with a single drive. U320 is 2560 Mbits/sec, 3 GHz SAS is only 2400 Mbits/sec. Albeit the bandwidth of U320 is shared among all the drives on the bus.