For desktop (mostly development, so lots of writes) use on either a 4000D or 4000T, what is the most reliable, but still fast drive configuration to use?
Well, in my towered A4000D with CyberstormPPC I used the UW-SCSI from the beginning to avoid unnecessary CPU load for disk operations.
Initially I just had a 4.3 gB UW-SCSI drive, but in the mean time I added a 160 gB IDE drive via Acard bridge (
http://www.vesalia.de/e_acard.htm?slc=us ).
As file system serves PFS3.
Very reliable - I had no failures during the last 10 years, and also the speed is quite good for this old system...
Preferably one that avoids as many drive size issues as possible, with any known connection type, I'll buy whatever I need to.
As I said above - my 160 gB drive works like a charm with PFS3 and OS 3.9/WarpOS.
Now I'm planning to add an external USB drive with one tB capacity and am confident it will also work flawlessly...
OS3.1 with what patches? 3.5? 3.9?
IDE, SCSI, USB, other?
OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1 (also experimental OS 4.0 classic setup)
SCSI
Built-in controller? Add on controller?
The UW-SCSI host adapter (controller) is onboard the CyberstormPPC board.
CF vs. thumb drive vs traditional spinning platters?
Can you constantly write to CF without wearing out the drive?
Do I need to use only tiny 2-4GB drives?
I have no experience in using those as hard drive replacement...
What filesystem?
PFS3
Partition sizes?
I have some 50 gB partitions, but larger ones should also be possible.
I just want to stop worrying about errors, data loss and lockups, it's killing the fun of using the system.
Thanks!
Well, my config worked fine without any errors, data loss or lockups for more than 10 years...
