4GB CF IDE HARD DRIVE www.amigakit.com

[amigakit]

We are pleased to announce that we have just secured a large batch of 4GB CF IDE hard disks prepped/formatted ready for Amiga 1200, 600 or 4000 (specify on ordering from AmigaKit store)

The advantages of our drives are:
- completely silent operation
- responsive drives that run cool
- fully prepped and formatted with our installation software pre-installed
- high quality media fully compatible with Amiga

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[rockape]

Hi Matthew,

Nice one mate.

I`ll invest in a couple

Regards, Michael

aka rockape


Founder member of LAG

See http://lincsamiga.org.uk/

[amigakit]

Thank you Michael :-)

[stefcep2]

will this work with an A4000 AND CDRW both on the same internal IDE interface?

[MarkTime]

I've run Windows XP on compact flash, and the results were quite disappointing.

Compact flash is incredibly fast on random reads - clearly the seek time of Solid State beats a mechanical rotating drive - however, they have the same write stuttering issues of early SSD drives.   That's because flash can't simply write one bit, to change one bit, it has to write the whole block.  That makes random writes, just horrible.

Still, it's great as an option , as long as people understand the limitations.  

Transcend TS4GIFD25 - this was a 4gb SLC SSD drive that would have worked fairly good in an Amiga, too bad Tiger is sold out.

[Xanxi]

I've run Windows XP on compact flash, and the results were quite disappointing.

Compact flash is incredibly fast on random reads - clearly the seek time of Solid State beats a mechanical rotating drive - however, they have the same write stuttering issues of early SSD drives.   That's because flash can't simply write one bit, to change one bit, it has to write the whole block.  That makes random writes, just horrible.

Still, it's great as an option , as long as people understand the limitations.  

Transcend TS4GIFD25 - this was a 4gb SLC SSD drive that would have worked fairly good in an Amiga, too bad Tiger is sold out.

One advantage for CF over SSD is that CF does not heat although SSD (i have a 64 GB Core Solid drive in my netbook and a 4 GB IDE no name drive reserved for my A1200) can get really hot.

[jj]

Thats why you would use compact flash just for booting XP or whatever OS and have the pagefile, documents, all data basically on a fast HDD

[tone007]

I've run Windows XP on compact flash, and the results were quite disappointing.

Luckily most A1200s don't have anywhere near the data transfer requirements of a Windows machine.  The bottleneck on your A1200 is still largely going to be the IDE interface itself, not the CF media.

[recidivist]

Besides the OS, couldn't you instal most programs to the Cf ,just being sure to direct  writes and saves to a real hard drive?

I'm thinking the program files don't change anymore than OS files so you kind of use the Cf as a big ROM.Data  could be stored  on an external hard drive thus keeping the heat outside the Amiga.

 Maybe not as  pretty as everything in one little box but might be better performance

 I'm not an expert nor do I play one on TV.