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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: amigakit on September 22, 2010, 01:23:34 PM

Title: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: amigakit on September 22, 2010, 01:23:34 PM
We are happy to announce that we have just secured another new batch of 4GB CF IDE hard disks prepped/formatted ready for Amiga 1200, 600 or 4000 (specify on ordering from AmigaKit store).  

This batch is currently available at a reduced special price for limited time period.

The advantages of our drives are:
- completely silent operation
- responsive drives that run cool
- fully prepped and formatted with our OS-Install installation software pre-installed
- high quality media fully compatible with Amiga
- A1200 / A4000 versions can be ordered prepped/formatted with SmartFileSystem (SFS)

Direct Product Links

USA Store:
http://www.amigakit.us/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=883

UK Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=883

European Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/EUR.php?url=product_info.php?products_id=883

Canadian Store:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/CAD.php?url=product_info.php?products_id=883

http://www.amigakit.com Amiga Computer Store
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: pan1k on September 22, 2010, 04:24:07 PM
I have one of these, and it works great!
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: illy5603 on September 22, 2010, 05:03:11 PM
Just curious, what would be the advantages to the Smart File System?
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: runequester on September 22, 2010, 06:01:34 PM
I got one of these and its very satisfactory.
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: mrmoonlight on September 22, 2010, 06:44:42 PM
Hi can i just say that if i were to buy one again i would buy one off amigakit .com and not ebay as i did,granted some of the sellers on ebay are very good,but the 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK  i bought off ebay had the red stripe on the wrong side ,and it was a good job i had the chance to speak to Amigakit ,or else i would be looking for a new Amiga 1200,so be warned,best wishes Brian
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: jsixis on September 23, 2010, 12:06:16 AM
great price, I may have to fire up my 1200
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: Pyromania on September 23, 2010, 02:13:35 AM
Great news!
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: SamuraiCrow on September 23, 2010, 02:50:47 PM
Quote from: illy5603;580681
Just curious, what would be the advantages to the Smart File System?


It doesn't need the disk-validator like FFS does when something crashes on it in an inopportune time.
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: Thomas on September 23, 2010, 03:08:02 PM
If something crashes on SFS in the "right" moment, you loose the entire partition and not only a few files.
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: Boudicca on September 23, 2010, 07:49:02 PM
Quote from: jsixis;580743
great price, I may have to fire up my 1200

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Compact-Flash-CF-2-5-IDE-44-Pin-Adapter-Converter-/170529862641?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item27b45f33f1

Greater price and same one too (pictured) on amigakit

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CF-44-Pin-IDE-Adapter-Laptop-2-5-HDD-Bootable-/160482341929?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item255d7e3429

This one has the link on the same side too
Title: Re: 4GB CF IDE HARD DISK www.amigakit.com
Post by: hardlink on September 23, 2010, 08:17:28 PM
Quote from: Thomas;580822
If something crashes on SFS in the "right" moment, you loose the entire partition and not only a few files.


Reminds me then of PFS3 :)
I seem to be the only PFS3 user for which loss of the partition was not 'if' but 'when'; I did a study one time documenting how long the 'when' took, but never put the results together. And, this was a sample of one (machine), so it could have been an intermittent  hardware problem. I certainly am not advocating them, but for all their well known drawbacks, in 23 years, I have not lost one file in OFS or FFS filesystems. Sometimes I did need to use DiskSalv to be able to claim this.