Review of my Acard ARS-2000SUP SCSI to 2.5" SATA adapter

[matthey]

Will post a sysinfo and a sysspeed pic later today showing 30mb/s with a csppc

You didn't quite make 30MB/s . My SysSpeed 1st try results...

CreateFile 30.10 MB/s
WriteFile 32.10 MB/s
ReadFile 30.38 MB/s
RawRead 30.67 MB/s

These results would be better with PFS3 like...

Create 1282 Op/s
Open 3224 Op/s
DirScan 19314 Op/s
Delete 1733 Op/s
Seek/Read 8359 Op/s

[LaserBack]

hey LaserBack ,



nexti time DO YOUR HOMEWORK before spreading crap-facts that are absolutelly false. Piru's post alone should shut you up (not to mention the other ppl that know more than you but let's pick the most famous one) but no...! you had to continue the crapfest...

the crapfest of the illusion now is not 18mb per second now is 30mb
I have seen only sysspeed tests which is a buggy and liar tool
but why nowbody have posted sysinfo screenshots...?
because sysinfo tells the true and offer real numbers...but nobody like it

[ddniUK]

the crapfest of the illusion now is not 18mb per second now is 30mb
I have seen only sysspeed tests which is a buggy and liar tool
but why nowbody have posted sysinfo screenshots...?
because sysinfo tells the true and offer real numbers...but nobody like it

ARE YOU ON DRUGS? Post 24 IS using Sysinfo .....

[mousehouse]

ARE YOU ON DRUGS? Post 24 IS using Sysinfo .....

Completely right of course, but let's drop it ;-)

The Acard is super nice and humming along great in my A4000D. I actually managed to squeeze 6MB/s out of it now by increasing the buffers, now if I could get my PFS3 partition recognized...

[NorthWay]

I also have the same adapter, hooked up to my CS060 MK1 with CybSCSI.
It took me a while to get there though - I am using the 8.7 ROM version (which I don't know if is publicly available - might be identical to the MK2/3 ROM version?) with a patch to skip sub-LUN handling.

And it works. 240G of SSD storage in an Amiga is ginormous...

[QuikSanz]

Not wanting to hijack thread but have a question. I have an Acard U/W SCSI to SATA bridge I just bought for my 4000T/CS MKIII. What drive to use? looking at:

" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE3ZZ6289 "

Any problem with this drive? Cache size & .............

PS: or how big can I really go?

[orange]

I prefer WD drives. The limit with fully patched OS should be 2TB (on builtin IDE), I think. Anyway I managed to format 300Gb WD IDE. Only downside is, you need a lot of partitions due to pfs3 limit of their size, and each one eats some RAM.

[NorthWay]

What drive to use? looking at:

I wouldn't touch spinning rust with a barge-pole unless I already had an SSD as my OS disk.
Now, an Amiga is probably 1000x more forgiving than other OSes, but I'm done with rattling, noisy and hot storage. I am guessing you can afford both if you have invested in an adapter like that??? Or there might be some specific reason you're looking at spinning disks (like slot space).

[orange]

dunno about others, but I like the HDD noise (floppy too!) in retro computers, speed doesn't matter so much. heat and power consumption does, but not too much.
SSDs are very robust, though, if you have important data.

[LoadWB]

Not wanting to hijack thread but have a question. I have an Acard U/W SCSI to SATA bridge I just bought for my 4000T/CS MKIII. What drive to use? looking at:

" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE3ZZ6289 "

Any problem with this drive? Cache size & .............

PS: or how big can I really go?

That *should* work fine.  The cache size is largely irrelevant for our purposes.  The size, 120GB, is well within sanity range.  I have a 500GB and a 1TB running on the same Acard on non-Amiga systems.  You'll want to check out a few other threads about large hard drives (over 4GB) and the requisite filesystems and their needs.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not wanting to hijack thread but have a question. I have an Acard U/W SCSI to SATA bridge I just bought for my 4000T/CS MKIII. What drive to use? looking at:

" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAEE3ZZ6289 "

Any problem with this drive? Cache size & .............

PS: or how big can I really go?

7200.7?  That's a really, really old model, and a terrible price. But good luck with that! :lol:

[LoadWB]

7200.7?  That's a really, really old model, and a terrible price. But good luck with that! :lol:

Mike has a point.  If you really want something of that vintage, I'm certain I can scrounge up something in good condition and send it to you for shipping cost.  PM me if interested.

[NorthWay]

how big can I really go?

Oh. You should ask Olsen. I know he has written something about that somewhere. But I think it is way larger than any single drive you can get today (filesystem and driver being correct though).

[kolla]

You would wish HDToolBox had a zoom feature with those large drives.

[QuikSanz]

OK, what about this one?

" https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5AD38B9135&cm_re=sata_hard_drive-_-22-136-697-_-Product ".

I wouldn't touch spinning rust with a barge-pole unless I already had an SSD as my OS disk.
Now, an Amiga is probably 1000x more forgiving than other OSes, but I'm done with rattling, noisy and hot storage. I am guessing you can afford both if you have invested in an adapter like that??? Or there might be some specific reason you're looking at spinning disks (like slot space).

There will be a CF on the IDE for the OS and a CDRW on the SCSI.