Wanna Hardrive and CD-Rom drive for my Amiga

[iamaboringperson]

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[iamaboringperson]

jeffimix wrote:
Ok, I want to buy a harddrive and CD-Rom drive for my Amiga 2000 (it's got that 5.1/4" bay just sitting there) Luckily, it already has a harddrive, an ancient Quantum thingummer, and a GVP SCSI controller board. I have Kickstart (and WB) 1.3 right now, so I'm wondering what I need to run a CD drive (I do have all thr GVP software for my I/O extender and harddisk controller)

Also, what harddrive brands and CD drive brands are best, I don't want to buy something to find out it doesn't work. I already know about 4 Gigabyte and lower limits.

Right now my Amiga set up is pretty unspectacular, so don't owrry about wierd pieces of hardware interfering with what I'm doing (SupraRam board with 2 megabytes of RAM, GVP I/O extender, GVP Harddisk controller (the old kind of SCSI) Amiga 2000 rev. 4.4 board with kickstart 1.3, OCS)

Okay, you already have the SCSI interface, that is good.
You will be better off with a higher revision kickstart.
Buy a SCSI CD drive, any brand will work, but I would reccomend Sony.
If the cost is a problem, go for a used SCSI CD-Drive, buying an IDE interface will probably be more expensive even though IDE CD drives are cheap as hell.

As for HDD's, I've found that a particular model of IBM hard drive wont work on my Amigas(GVP or A 4000 T onboard SCSI interface).

Honestly, your money would be better spent getting KS 3.1, especialy before the HDD.
:-)

[iamaboringperson]

IMHO the A 3000 T and A 4000 T were the 'flagship' Amiga models.
Plenty of expansion, the A 4000 T uses an AT PSU, and basically an AT case, with AT style motherboard.
The case of the A 4000 T is 1mm thick pressed _steel_, A2000's are made of different materials depending on the year of manufacture.
Trust me. I have an A2000(the made in germany one), I once owned a B2000, and the B2000 was technically superiour, but the build quality was slightly worse IMO, but still very good.
Expansion  is important, to me it's more important than AGA, so IMHO having Zoro slots & drive bays are better than better graphics.
Also remember that the A3000, A3000UX, A3000T, A4000, A4000T, A1200, & CDTV(have I missed any?) all have 32-bit data busses! They are all much faster than an A2000 when accessing the motherboards bus.
The A2000 can have improved CPU cards, but even the A1200 can get better CPUs available for it, and even PCI slots. It is potentialy(heck, even by default) much faster than the A2000.
Being made of steel the A4000T will last - for a long time.
And whos A1200 has broken down just from age or ordinary use anyway?