SCSI to SATA bridge... SSD drive pros/cons?

[nicholas]

hey all,
just got hold of a Mk3 Cyberstorm that will soon be nestled in the belly of my A3000D after a quick Int2 motherboard mod...
currently got an Acard scsi2ide bridge off the onboard scsi controller with a Compact flash adapter and 4GB card acting as the main drive.

now, with the widescsi controller on the Mk3, would it be best to use one of the 146GB wide scsi drives i've been keeping for the time when i can use them, or in the interest of quiet computing, get an ultawide scsi to sata bridge and use one of the 160GB Intel 320 SSD's i've got laying around?

any issues running an SSD on an amiga, given the lack of clever commands and things that seem to be needed to manage an SSD drive? trim command, wear leveling, delete on inactive, page purges and yadda yadda...

cheers all happy non denominational holidays

What you want is a hybrid Drive like the Seagate Momentus XT as the computer just sees it as a plain old hard disk thus removing the need for TRIM support etc

If you can afford it get the 750 GB model as the previous models weren't as reliable.

They sell for about £70-80 at ebuyer.com and Amazon.

[nicholas]

I've had a few of the hybrid drives over the years and wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy.  Real world MTBF is awful and they aren't much quicker in real world usage, imo.

Last Momentus hybrid drive I had lasted a grand total of three and a half weeks.  Switched to dedicated, real SSD's for boot drives and WD reds for storage and haven't looked back.

Yeah the first couple of generations were atrocious, but the 750GB model is outstanding (Both performance and reliability wise)

Plus it's the only "SSD" that any 68k Amiga is likely to be able to use without any problems cropping up.

edit: That being said, my A3K runs off an SDHC card attached to a SATA to SCSI adapter with no problems to speak of.

[nicholas]

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