CF versus SCSI disk

[Darrin]

I have a Buddha and it's always useful to be able to just yank old CD ROM drives or old hard drives out of PCs and use them on your A2000.  I've got a room full of old IDE devices, but to get any SCSI stuff I either have to pay retail prices or play on eBay.

[Darrin]

Don't forget that it has an A1200 clock port on it (well, mine does) so there's plenty of other add-ons that you can use with it while using SCSI devices via your other SCSI board.

[Darrin]

golem wrote:
Darrin
You like a the Kates bush eh?

She's up there with the best of them.

I lusted after her through the 70s and 80s (and the 90s... and...)   ;-)

Her Greatest Hits video CD was one of the first titles I purchased for use on my CD32+FMV.  I think The Kick Inside is still her best album though.   :-)

[Darrin]

golem wrote:
Her first album I never got to know but Wuthering Heights is brilliant and I'm not a homosexual. I think her following albums up until The Red Shoes were all outstanding for their time. She will always be uber-hot I agree.

Neither am I - what are you insinuating?  

Back to topic..how comparable is the IDE interface on an A1200 to a Buddha through Zorro2 on a 2000?

:-o   ;-)  :lol: [/quote]

Good question.  To be honest, I've never really bothered measuring the speeds on my A1200s, A2000 or A3000.  My main A1200T has the Power Flyer Gold IDE device in it and that is "supposed" to be fast, however when booting off a hard drive on either a plain A1200, my A1200T  or SCSI/IDE drives on my A2000/A3000 then I really can't tell.  Let's face it, compared to the amount of data we load for Workbench compared to the never ending flood of data required for Windows, what's an extra second or two?  :-)

I'm at work for the next 4 weeks, but when I get home I'll probably test the drives on the different machines.  You've made me curious now.

[Darrin]

golem wrote:I hear what you're saying dude.  :-)
I don't really notice a speed difference between loading drawers on my SCSI device or on my IDE hard drive either (even with a CPU intensive task in the background)

Exactly.  Although we all keep getting bombarded with maximum transfer rates and the like, in the real world it makes very little difference to the average user.  In all honesty, the only major differences I've ever seen is when using a removable media drive (such as a ZIP or ORB) drive as a boot device rather than a "real" hard drive.  I used to use my SCSI Orb on both my A2000 and A3000 for a while (using different cartridges for each machine), but now I use it as a 2nd drive for data and to back up the boot hard drive since you can boot from it if the main hard drive fails, reformat the hard drive and then drag the data Orb to the HD.  If only restoring a PC was so quick and easy  :-D