Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Reliable and High Performance: SCSI Terminator

A Terminator is an electric device which when placed at the end of a transmission line, prevents an electrical signal from being reflected back from the end. It is designed to match the impedance and minimizes signal reflection. A terminator is one of two types, either active or passive. The difference between the two lies in the fact that an active terminator consists of a voltage regulator and the passive one consists of simple resistors.

A SCSI Terminator must be designed and manufactured in such a way that it meets or exceeds the ANSI standards. The word SCSI is termed as small computer system interface and these terminators are used for those specific types of hard drives. These provide us a reliable signal with long cable runs of up to 6 meters along with increased data rates, satisfying us with high performance and reliability. The performance depends upon the way in which the resistors and diodes of a terminator work with each other resulting in balancing fluctuations that don’t match with the line impedance.

You can get a wide variety of such terminators including active, passive, single ended, High Voltage Differential (HVD), and Low Voltage Differential (LVD), such as Ultra2, Ultra 160, and Ultra 320. All have different specifications which makes it critical to choose the proper terminator for the specific SCSI bus application. And because a terminator is such a critical item for your high performance SCSI system, always try to buy the best quality product.

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