Swap HD for CF setup?

[fitzsteve]

Hi!

I have a Power Flyer Gold in my A1200, I get 5mb/sec with SFS and my CF Card @PIO3

I've been able to run PIO4 for 5.6mb/sec but only with a 300x CF card, you'll probably have more success at higher speeds with a Hard Drive however  CF card has zero seek time and is cool and uses less power.

The Power Flyer also runs pretty warm so if this is all inside an A1200 case then I'd suggest the CF over the HDD.  In a Tower, I'd go with a real 3.5in 7200rpm HDD.

Steve.

[fitzsteve]

I need to make a sig of my spec, but yes, it is in a tower case.

Is there any worry about card life? I know these things don't last forever, but don't know how that compares with a hard drive.

Hi!

In a Tower then really, the best option is a nice new HDD, you can use SATA with converter or a new IDE if you can find one for the best results.

CF Cards as we know have limited writes, if this is a workhorse system you may come into trouble eventually with this (i have some old CF's that were punished in Camera's before Amiga use and they are failing now but my new CF's are all fine however my Amiga's are only used a couple of hours a week.

If you just use it a few hours a week you can expect the CF to last

Another nice idea is that you can mount a CF in a removable bay on the front or rear of the case for simple back-ups/add data and to allow you to have several setups at your disposal on different CF's.

All the best,

Steve.

[fitzsteve]

What is the capacity of these cards? I remember asking about this years ago and the answer put me off.

Do you mean in general or do you mean my cards?

All my cards are between 2 and 4gb, which is plenty of storage for a gaming Amiga given each game is 1-2mb

Of course you can buy larger CF's. such as 8gb/16gb, these need a little more skill to setup (patched SCSI device and advanced file system like SFS/PFS3)

In my A1200T & A4000 I have 20 & 40gb HDD's attached to the SCSI via SCSI-IDE conveters.

Since fitzsteve mentioned it, are all SATA->IDE adapters compatible with Amigas?

I don't know about 'all' but most of the el-cheapo adapters on eBay should work fine

Steve.