A good crimping tool is important if you want to do any serious work involving cables or leads. Crimpers allow you to affix mechanical ends to pieces of dry wire, turning them into real, usable cables. Any line tech will tell you that a good crimper is worth it's weight in gold. Which of these great crimping devices would you most like to use in building your own cable?
StarTech.com 1 Port PCI Ultra Wide SCSI Controller Adapter
Toshiba SCSI-UPG UPG SCSI Card for All Surv 8+CH
39160 Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI Card with 68-Pin External SCSI
Before SATA became the de facto standard, computers used to interface with large, high-speed drives using a SCSI interface. These large, multi-pin interconnects provided significant bandwidth and robust reliability. Because they are phasing out of popularity, you can find large old disc arrays for sale cheap, but then you will need a SCSI card to allow your computer to use them. Which of these SCSI cards would you use?
Cables To Go 1.5ft USB to DB9 Serial Adapter Cable
Keyspan High Speed USB Serial Adapter Serial adapter
Belkin USB/Serial Portable Adapter Serial adapter
Sabrent SBT-USC1M Serial adapter - USB
IOGEAR USB PDA/ Serial Adapter GUC232A Serial adapter
The wiring diagram for a USB to Serial adapter is fairly simple, at least when compared to that of a transistor radio or a motherboard. However, wiring one yourself would take a lot of time, and that time would likely be wasted, as there are so many simple USB to Serial adapters available from various manufacturers. Which of these great USB to Serial adapters do you like the best?
