replacement for CF cards?

[slaapliedje]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009GG06F8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

120GB for 50 bucks...

I'll be putting this into my A4000D tomorrow and I'll let you guys know how it goes!

slaapliedje

[som99]

So you are going to jump from CF to a SATA SSD? Are you going to use a SATA to PATA converter? I've had trouble with many sata to pata converters when used with an SSD so on Amiga and other PC's with only PATA interface I usually use PATA SSD's instead.

I don't know much about those drives but on SATA SSD's I usually try to stick at SSD's with proven reliable controllers and on SATA drives there are many non MLC alternatives that do not cost much more then that.

But post how it goes and keep us updated

[slaapliedje]

I'm going from a spinning disk to a SSD, and I already have a PATA -> SATA adapter on it, it's just that with the NoIDE thing attached to my A4000D, when I power it on initially it goes directly to the 'insert floppy' animation from kickstart because the drive hasn't spun up yet.  This, I would think would eliminate that.  

I have a 160GB drive in there now, and if I move to a 120GB I should be okay, but if I tried moving to a smaller CF Card it'd suck, that and I couldn't really find a good place to mount it..

Lot of projects going on this weekend, hopefully I'll have some time to work on it, since I need to pull the drive out, and then copy it over via winUAE to the SSD drive, then plop it back in.

For what it's worth I have the FastATA MK something, and already have two PATA -> SATA adapters running on it, one for my Plextor burner I had laying around (one of the first SATA DVD burners available, and still working!) and one for the aforementioned 160GB drive.

If it all works, I'll send some hardware pr0n pictures.  This will be a good time to finally attach the ROMY I ordered for the 4000D as well.

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Wow, I've had some horribly bad luck with this project (and my other computer related project of replacing my hard drives in my server with m.SATA cards).

So I apparently ordered the incorrect SATA to PATA adapter, (44pin to SATA, rather than the 40pin that I needed) so I ended up ordering a 40-44pin conversion thing, it finally came so I decided to start doing the Backup/Format/Copy from the Old/New/New, but in the mean time I had upgraded to Windows 10.

Now Windows 7 had weird issues occasionally with my USB -> SATA/IDE adapter before, but as soon as I tried formatting my new drive through Amikit/WinUAE, something menacing happened.  Ended up having to reinstall Windows 10 (it was a fresh install, and it's buggy as all hell, but that's for some other story)

Anyhow, in the midst of me trying to fix Windows 10 (which by the way marked my multiple hard drives in my system as not clean, so Linux wouldn't mount them) I bumped the hard drive that was sitting  on top of my tower, it was plugged into the wall, but not the computer, so hoping it's still okay (gonna test in a minute here).  But it bent the entire SATA connector up, and when I tried (very carefully) to bend it back, sure enough it broke clean off.

I ended up ordering another part, I think this one was less than 10 bucks, so no big deal.

slaapliedje

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Wow, that is some rotten luck!  

Probably a dumb suggestion, but why not just get a native PATA-interface SSD, and prep it directly in the Amiga?  Then you won't have to deal with any daisy-chained interfaces, Windows 10 hassles, etc.  IMHO that's what I'd do.  

[slaapliedje]

I know once upon a time I was looking for PATA SSDs, and wasn't able to find any.  Reason I went with this drive is that it was really cheap.  

Hmm, I see a few on Amazon, but they seem to be a good chunk of cash more, 128gb for 88 dollars, instead of the 50 for 120GB.  Though I guess if you start counting up broken adapters, then it evens out!

I went with IDE -> SATA adapter for my Optical Drive replacement.  The Amiga is a hell of a lot quieter now.

slaapliedje

P.S. I could prep it, and copy everything over in the Amiga, it's just terribly slow.  I should be able to do this under Linux using FS-UAE, it's just a little less dependable usually than under WinUAE, unless of course you have weird motherboard issues like I've been having (I have to unplug my Roccat Tyon mouse when I boot into Linux, or it causes a boot loop... something about smp_cpu unable to wake.. but I plug it in after the kernel loads and it's fine... going to be upgrading my main system as soon as the i7-6700K processors aren't 5,200 on Amazon!  http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Boxed-I7-6700K-Processor-BX80662I76700K/dp/B012M8LXQW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1439832631&sr=8-2&keywords=i7-6700k )