What size Hard Drive for A1200???

[kiniki]

I want to get a Hard Drive for my A1200 but I am trying to work out what size I should get.

I know that usually its a case of the bigger the better, but I would like to get just enough.

Would 2gb be enough, 4?

Is higher overkill?

Basically I want to put any games I buy on there and thats about it.

Any advice?

[kiniki]

I guess its a slightly subjective question..

Maybe its better to ask what other people have in their 1200's?

[kiniki]

Thomas wrote:

It depends on what you want to store on the HDD. If you want to collect mp3s or video clips, it is easy to fill 4GB quickly. But for storing text files, 4GB will be enough for decades.

What you should consider is that the Amiga cannot handle HDDs bigger than 4GB without software patches. So if you don't want any hassle, you should stay smaller than 4GB (4.3 billion bytes). Also a HDD needs some memory for buffers. The bigger the HDD (and the more partitions) the more buffers you need. If you don't have a memory expansion, you should surely stay below 4GB.

Bye,
Thomas

Thanks for that Thomas.

I literally will use it with WHDload for the games I have. I am rapidly collecting a vast amount of games off ebay and would like to have them on a hard drive to save swapping disks.

Would 3gb be enough?? Its just I am not sure how big the average game is... Although I would guess 3gb would fit a load of Amiga games?