SCSI to SATA bridge... SSD drive pros/cons?

[darksun9210]

hey all,
just got hold of a Mk3 Cyberstorm that will soon be nestled in the belly of my A3000D after a quick Int2 motherboard mod...
currently got an Acard scsi2ide bridge off the onboard scsi controller with a Compact flash adapter and 4GB card acting as the main drive.

now, with the widescsi controller on the Mk3, would it be best to use one of the 146GB wide scsi drives i've been keeping for the time when i can use them, or in the interest of quiet computing, get an ultawide scsi to sata bridge and use one of the 160GB Intel 320 SSD's i've got laying around?

any issues running an SSD on an amiga, given the lack of clever commands and things that seem to be needed to manage an SSD drive? trim command, wear leveling, delete on inactive, page purges and yadda yadda...

cheers all happy non denominational holidays

[darksun9210]

yeah, i head that, less power hungry, no noise, no heat, no vibration... all good stuff.
Heh, i don't think a trim application would ever be written for the amiga. if it was, it would probably take 2 days to execute
i might give it a shot, purely as i have the parts available except the scsi2sata bridge ... so far...
Thinking about it. it's probably as dangerous to run a Compact Flash as it is an SSD. Maybe the amiga's lack of sophistication in this regard is a plus. no journal files, or writeback caches...

[darksun9210]

hmmm, ok, so we're agreed at least on the SCSI to SATA bridge

just what you do from then on, probably memory card based as the speed and access time will be more than adequate, and no need to give too much mind to trim and garbage collection etc.

[darksun9210]

No Worries Matt,
Hope yours comes through. I smiled when I saw where yours could possibly be coming from. hope it all works out.

I've upgraded from a Commodore A3640 card, but with only 1Meg zip ram on the mainboard, it isn't long before it's using the fast ram on the Zorro. and man could you feel it.
The Mk3 has kinda of re-envigorated my "can I use an amiga as my main machine again" idea. however, my wife's had a word about my recent purchase, so a wide scsi to Sata adapter is going to be on hold till we have a review of our finances

the compact flash, adapter, and acard scsi bridge I've got on the onboard scsi is still  seemingly pretty rapid. so i'll stick with that ... for the time being...

Cheers,
Andy