Most bullet-proof drive solution?

[nicholas]

I use an SDHC Card fitted to an IDE Adapter, which in turn is connected to an IDE to SCSI bridge, which in turn is fitted to my CyberSCSI Mk2.

It works nice and fast, silent and stable too.

You might want to use PFS too.

[nicholas]

All those adapters seem pretty scary, but if it works...

I tried an IDE to SATA but I can't get it to recognize on any of my systems.  Probably just not a compatible adapter.

I did give SFS a shot, that didn't work out any better than FFS from what I could tell.  If anything went wrong, I had trouble accessing the drive too.

Is PFS more reliable?  Is it painful to set up?

It's no more difficult to set up than SFS really, it is also very fast too.

[nicholas]

I've tried a multitude, so just combine these options...
A4000T scsi
A4000T ide
A4000D ide
Quickpak 060 desktop version with scsi
Warp Engine 3040 scsi
Deneb USB (DMA and PIO, ZIII and ZII)
Misc. ide drives, 120GB-200GB
Misc. scsi drives, 9GB-72GB
4GB USB thumb drives
USB-sata enclosures with 80-250GB 2.5" and 3.5" drives
Normally a ~1.7GB or less System, no more than 1.7GB Work.

The constant has been OS3.9.  As I said, I thought this was the gold standard, newest to use with fixes for drive capacity.

This was in 5 Amigas (3 4kD, 2 4kT) with 3 CPU and SCSI cards.

Closest yet was the Warp Engine SCSI.  It copied far more files without issue, from one old scsi drive to another new SCSI, but it's seems to have developed RAM and heat issues.

The Warp Engine HD also included an OS3.9 that was NOT installed by me.  I have no idea what was done to it.

I fear screwing up that drive by installing my 060 and other libraries on it so I duplicated it and tried with two other controllers and CPU cards with no better results.

Of them all, the Deneb/thumbdrive combo felt fastest in use, but was no more reliable.

I'll take stable over fast BTW.

3.9 with Boing Bags 1, 2 and 3 is reliable on all my machines, BB4 is good too but is still a WIP.