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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: michel3105 on October 17, 2011, 09:05:05 AM
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I've been away from the Amiga world for quite some years.
Now I come back and see that Compact Flash cards can be fit in the A1200 by means of an IDE adapter.
Are they worthy substitute for an hard disk?
Or are they just fine for storing games?
I'm asking this because I've always heard how CF cards are good for storing and being read from time to time, but tend to fail if continuously accessed.
What I'd be going to do is to use a CF card as an hard disk in every sense, and have Workbench and every other (non game) software installed and used.
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Yes, they make a worthy replacement on the Amiga for most uses, because the main issue with flash memory is writing to it - reading from it is fast and can be done as much as you like, but writing to it can be slow (depending on the card and other factors) and will eventually "wear out" the card after many repeated write cycles. The thing about the Amiga is that it doesn't write to the drive the whole time like most other operating systems - normally it'll just read. There's no virtual memory, no automatically remembering icon or window positions, last accessed files and applications etc. which would normally cause frequent writes to the drive on other systems.
Any decent flash card can rewrite the same blocks tens of thousands of times without any issues, and that's more than you'll ever need on your Amiga...
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Here is an example of a compatible Amiga CF IDE Hard Drive:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=883