Looking for an A600HD Hard Drive Replacement Guide (n00be)

[Franko]

3) Do you know what hard drive size I need?

The size of the HD you require will depend on what you envisage using your Amiga for...

If you only require a small amount of storage space the a Compact Flash type might suit you better...

If you think you'll need countless Gigabytes of space like I do then a proper HD is your best bet...

Never been keen on those CF boards mainly due to the limited size of the cards and I believe they are slower in reading and writing speeds in comparison to a real HD (anyone able to supply some data transfer speeds for a CF board please...)

Either way both are easy to physically install, it's usually the formatting & partitioning where most folk have bother...

[Franko]

@ kamiga

It's not quite as simple as what specs the manufacturer states for compact flash cards...

It down the both the hardware and software that you have to use on the Amiga that makes reading & especially writing to CF's slower compared to a real HD...

If price is really important to you then look at it this way for £30 (or much less) you can have yourself a 200Gb HD, now how many 4Gb CF cards at $11 would you need to buy to achieve that (if you could use them that is)...

Here's the answer $511 to equal the same storage space as a real HD that costs you less than £30 ($65) and which just so happens to be faster than CF drives...

Run some real tests on an Amiga comparing read and write times between a CF drive and a real hard drive, think you'll be surprised by the results...