SSD Drive

[Ancalimon]

The A1200's onboard IDE is only PIO mode 0 (programmed input/output) with a theoretical maximum of 3.3MB/s throughput... as bloodline said, in reality 2.0MB/s is more likely.

You can get CF cards that will happily do 20 - 30 MB/s.

The latest SATA 3 drives have a theoretical 6000MB/s throughput... 2000 times faster than what the A1200's IDE controller can provide.


I think you can get a FastATA accelerator for the A1200 which offers faster PIO modes but even they only go up to 16MB/s. Still slower than what a CF card can handle.

So essentially you'll be throwing a lot of money at this, for an SSD, a SATA-IDE adapter and perhaps a FastATA, and the system will be no faster than if you'd used a CF card.

The CF card isn't what's holding you back, its the IDE interface in the Amiga.

What about the SCSI kit with Blizzard 060  or the SCSI3 port of CyberstormPPC? How would an SSD perform there?

[Ancalimon]

but what are you using Amiga for, so that hdd speed increase is so important? it can't be whdload. and booting is fast in any case.

I certainly need a fast hdd that does not use the cpu like IDE. Otherwise, VLab Motion does not work. (not that I use it that much anyway. My A4000T is broken since 2002. Hopefully it will get back to life this month.)