Best storage I can get? FastATA MK-VI 4000 CF/SATA

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Fastlane Z3?  10MB/sec and adds up to 256MB of memory?  Allows you to make use of all those SCSI drives you already have?

I've never owned one, but if I was building some kind of "ultimate A4000" system, that's probably something I'd look for.  I never liked IDE.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

So basically you're just looking for ideas?  Hrm.  How 'bout the A4091?  Doesn't offer ram expansion (you said you don't need it), not as rare as hen's teeth, still supposed to be able to do 8-9MB/sec.  How's that?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@Thread - - In my opinion a Buddha Phoenix Edition of 3 to 5 MB/s doubles the number of IDE ports and speed of the onboard IDE for about $100 USD and in a cost to benefit ratio gives a good option, although the FastATA will be new and easily available, just don't believe the hype.

I considered suggesting that as well.  AFAIK all Buddha's are only Zorro II however, no?  (limited to 3.58MB/sec)

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I guess it all depends what you wanna do with it.  IMHO if I was gonna invest some serious cash to build a ZIII system, I would accept nothing less than a good ZIII SCSI card.  But others are fine with just a 2091 or the like.  I've even got a couple cheap-o BSC Tandem IDE cards laying around - I don't use IDE devices very often, but was surprised when I did I was able to get 2.1MB/sec out of it with just a plain old 20GB 7200RPM WD hard drive.  That's faster than the pathetic on-board SCSI on my GeForce '040, even!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Not my auction just saw it and posting for the sake of the conversation:

Fastlane Z3:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Phase-5-Fastlane-Z3-48MB-RAM-SCSI-controller-Commodore-Amiga-3000-4000-works-/271733869211?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3f4499ca9b

@danbeaver - any way of telling from photos what version ROM these things have?