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Re: Will a 147GB SCSI Hard drive work with Amiga 1200?
« on: November 21, 2007, 12:57:18 AM »
The interface speed determines the theoretical peak transfer rate. With Blizzard SCSI Kit the maximum theoretical speed is close to 10MB/s. Obviously the drive can be slower, but anything modern will easily max SCSI-2.

Drive rotation speed only affects seeking times.

10krpm are a bit whiney and they tend to run quite hot (active  cooling is recommended). I wouldn't be stuffing one inside A1200 desktop.

Wikipedia is a nice source of information.

Anyhoo, as SCSI is well backwards compatible there should be no problem of connecting that drive to Blizzard SCSI. You obviously need the proper converter and stuff.