I once bought a hard disk from Anal-Logic and it was a 510mb Quantum Daytona.The sub-brand was Go-Drive® and it gave me no end of trouble.
It was a little 2.5" laptop drive and after trying to get it work for months I was told by Wizard Developments (/Compute!) that Go-Drive® don't work on Amiga.
Last year I bought a 2Gb Seagate Barracuda 3.5" SCSI drive but sold it after a few months because it got extremely hot. Whether this was a sign of bearing failure I don't know but I don't like to see a hard disk getting hot.
I also bought a 2.5" 540mb IBM IDE drive and that seemed a little wobbly... powering up sometimes, not on others.
One thing I thought about the A1200... there is nothing physical on the internal IDE port to stop you inserting the ribbon the wrong way around. I can see a little zero printed on the motherboard near the port, just wondering if this indicated the red powerline pin on the ribbons.
It's not as logical as looking at the way the ribbon comes out of a drive (if the drive is sold minus the ribbon).
The drives I trust the most are Quantum Fireballs. I have two SCSI drives and they are fast and reliable, even though one is slightly louder than the other (wonder if a seal is not making contact).
As for using 80Gb+ drives on an Amiga, I find this extremely dangerous even on OS3.9. How do you manage for recovery? Is it not better to get a removeable medium like a Jazz drive or a RAID array if your into file serving/media collecting?
@MAD: I know what you mean, if you disable the Blizzard 1260 your SCSI goes with the CPU. So you have to revert to IDE or floppy! Why this when the memory and clock stay!?
:-)
The most award winning drives out there now are the Maxtor ones with those blue cases. Can't remember what they're called, MediaDrive or something? Some are even 15,000rpm SCSI drives.
For me, a migration to solid state couldn't come sooner. I wonder if it'd be fun to set up a Compact Flash RAID array!
:-) :-) :-D
