DJBase wrote:
terminator4 wrote:
@JimmySage
Well said. I always find it wasteful putting a newer IDE hard disk in Amiga, or any SCSI3 or SCA drives in Amiga, b/c the speed is never utilized. Nothing cool in that.
Well, yes and no. Of course you won't reach the max. data throughput of the drives but flash drives will beat every mechanical drive at access time. Also they run cooler and without any noise. So with a flash drive (like SSD, CF,...) you will get some nice advantages.
Those are exactly the reasons why I put A 2 GB SSD in my A500 HD8+. I didn't do it for the speed. The HD8+ SCSI controller maxes out at 3.5 MB/s anyway (BTW I'm getting 2 MB/s with the SSD), but the silent operation of the drive and the SSD running cooler and using less power were my main reasons for putting it in my HD8+.
I tried a CF adapter, but it wouldn't work with my sandisk ultra II 2 GB card (got write errors), but it would work perfectly with an old 128 MB Toshiba CF card.
I didn't want to try out all kinds of different brands of CF cards, so I just put in an SSD.
