Odd Connector from Old Raid Controller

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This odd connector came to my attention the today. It is from an at least 6 year old PCI (HA!) Raid Controller. The same connector was also used to connect to the hard drives with no adapters. They were (3) Toshiba 73 GB HDD's and took an IDE power plug. The Raid Controller was a Marvel 88SE61.

Could anyone please enlighten me on what this connector is?
 
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pauls3743
68-pin LVD (low voltage differential) scsi connector. It's used for speeds ranging from 80MB/s (non-LVD) up to 320MB/S. There are hard drives out there that will take the connector directly but a lot of enterprise drives need a 80-pin backplane adapter.

It was eventually supplanted by SAS (like SATA II but more capable) as it could only support 15 drives not including the host adapter.
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68-pin LVD (low voltage differential) scsi connector. It's used for speeds ranging from 80MB/s (non-LVD) up to 320MB/S. There are hard drives out there that will take the connector directly but a lot of enterprise drives need a 80-pin backplane adapter.

It was eventually supplanted by SAS (like SATA II but more capable) as it could only support 15 drives not including the host adapter.
 
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Great, this really helps. Thanks.
 
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