I'm thinking of investing in a solid state drive for my Amiga. Its 1.2Gb drive is getting on a bit now, it's all backed up on my PC but I have nightmares about it failing.
Does anybody have any recommendations for hardware?
Also what would be the best/easiest way to reinstall all my things on a new drive? I gather there are programs for Linux that will write Amiga partition tables and file systems. My Amiga does have a network card.
I have a Fast ATA IV and CF works but my computer would never boot from cold. You always had to do a warm boot to get it going. I had the same issue with the CF card andthe EIDEx4 adapter I had before that. It was not the end of the world, but it annoyed me none the less.
I ended up switching to a transcend 4GB disk-on-modele(which did not have the cold boot problem) and I added a dual IDE SATA converter and ran the SATA ports to external eSATA ports.
On one of the external eSATA ports I usually keep 60GB SSD and occasionally plug in a external DVD drive.
In the future I may mount the SSD internal.
I'm not using the full 60GB but figure I have already carved out:
4GB of amiga related MPEG1 videos (i play with RiVA)
4GB partition for whdload games.
4GB partition for backing up stuff
4GB MP3 and MOD files
4GB of classic mac crap.
