Yeah, it's Xmas (Have a good one!) - but the Scrooge in me wants to have a qwik moan. To whit:
Re. 68 pin Acard ARS-2160 Ultra160 SCSI to SATA II Adapter for 2.5" SATA HDD
Why are these devices SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO expensive!
https://www.ebay.com/p/2254359748?iid=263397949700(There is an Ultra 320 version of this too, for around the same price.)
Bought two of these adapters for our Amiga 3000 w/CyberstormPPC some years ago on Ebay:
First one - $US295 - 1/11/2014
Second one - $US320 - 15/04/2017
The price of the second had risen, but not by much.
Now, on 18/12/2020 they want $US2000 for one! Yikes! What is going on with that? In terms of scale, even luxury cars don't rise in price by THAT much - especially with the (relatively) low inflation rates nowadays. This price rise defies gravity - even the Laws of Physics themselves.
Can't believe they are so costly now - and the price went up suddenly not long after I bought that second one. (Was it me? Always suspected there were 'evil forces' plotting against my retirement Amiga 3000 project.) Thought the cost was high when I bought in - the cautious Scotsman in me dithered for weeks about forking out - but certainly could not afford one now. Damn shame because they are excellent for attaching SSDs to a CyberstormPPC's SCSI bus. They just WORK! And Faaaaaaaaaaaaaast! Just having a working modern SSD drive on an Amiga speeds it up by default - never mind having to tweak it.
Would consider another one if the price would go back to where it was - at least. If there is anyone out there who has the nous to manufacture these adapters at an affordable price, I'd buy another one.
For CyberstormPPC set-ups - or any accelerator with Ultra 160 SCSI - they are also great for testing purposes when sitting outside the case on a longer SCSI cable. You can simply power down and swap out drives - not plug an' play unfortunately - but almost, because the machine boots back up so (relatively) fast from them it isn't that much of a hassle. Nifty way to try out, say, several builds of an OS on cheap, small SSDs for eg. without having to swap masses of files around, till you get one just right. Light but well built - and they run cool. Can't understand why they went up in price so dramatically. Nothing else went up so fast... not even chocolate cookies. Weirdness.
Any thoughts?
Cheers from Crackpot