Amiga 2000

[rdolores]

Make the A2000 your primary machine.  It is easier to upgrade.  You could transfer the 3.1 ROM to the A500, but not the GVP030 accelerator board with its RAM or the CD-ROM drive.

So I have been using an Amiga 500 1.3 with a hard drive 2MB ram for a while, and I am happy with it, but it has its limitations.

Today I got a free Amiga 2000 from an Amiga club member. He is moving and downsizing his collection.

We did not know this originally but once booted we discovered that this thing is a beast:

Kickstart 40.63
Workbench 3.1
Cpu 68030 24.20 Mhz
4MB Fast Ram
1MB GVP 32 Bit RAM (don't know what that is)
4MB GVP 32 Bit Ram (Again don't know what that is)
512KB Slow Ram
512 Chip Ram
250 MB Hard drove
CD Rom

Now I love my Amiga 500.  The Amiga 2000 well, its butt ugly (sorry) and the PSU is super loud.  And who knows how reliable it is.

So I am trying to decide if I should invest in maybe a quieter ATX PSU & Amiga Kit cable or should I just transfer the kickstart chip & processor into my A500 (upgrade to 3.1) and  keep the A2000 as a backup.

I want to love this thing but its so dam ugly and loud,  help!

[rdolores]

Older SCSI hard drives are easy to get and pretty cheap nowadays.  Your Amiga should be able to handle drives up to 4 GB's in capacity easily.  You probably have an XT Bridgeboard in your machine.  It can share space off of your Amiga HD, although a dedicated HD is more ideal for the PC board.  I believe the GVP Accelerator board on your machine has a SCSI controller which probably is connected to your main hard drive and CD-ROM drive via a daisy-chained SCSI cable.

I should add the 2000 also came with 2 extra Zorro cards, a PC Board with an 8080 and an extra Hard Disk controller (which I don't think I need)

Is there anything I can do about the hard disk, I am sure it is contributing to the loudness as well and who knows how reliable it is after all these years.  Is there some way to upgrade it to a standard IDE or SATA or CF?