Solid state hard drives and the Amiga?

[Amithony]

Has anyone got one to work somehow yet? If it makes a PC feel lightning fast, imagine what it could do for an Ami

[orange]

unfortunately, Amiga will probably 'miss that boat' since most of them are SATA.

thats why we all use CF..

[Painkiller]

There are plenty of IDE SSDs that should work with Amiga out of the box. One can also use CF-IDE adapter which will work also.

[Tumbleweed]

orange wrote:
unfortunately, Amiga will probably 'miss that boat' since most of them are SATA.

thats why we all use CF..

if you've got a Deneb, you could use a USB to SATA adapter, the limiting factor would be the speed on the USB side. On an A4000 in DMA mode the transfer speed would be pretty good relative to the intenal IDE.

[JimmySage]

I'd save your money. You'll never go any faster than your interface.

I only get 6Mb/s from my IDEExpress - FastATA IV claims 16.6 on their web site. I'm not sure what you can get out of Amiga SCSI or USB, but I'm sure it's never going to be close to the 300Mb/s that SATA2 can reach.

[djbase]

I have a Transcend 32GB SSD in my Amiga 1200 on B1260 SCSI Kit and get 9 MB/s (thats nearly the max. of that SCSI Kit). So in my case it is very useful. Not cheap but useful.

[terminator4]

@JimmySage

Well said.  I always find it wasteful putting a newer IDE hard disk in Amiga, or any SCSI3 or SCA drives in Amiga, b/c the speed is never utilized.  Nothing cool in that.

[krize]

Its actually very cool! You get 4gb and bigger drives now, no mechanical parts is a dream come true for me....

I will get one (or more)..

[amiga1260]

I use a IDE2CF adapter with a SanDisk Extreme III 4 GB in my A1200.

With same fast memory 2.1 MB/s
With a 1220/4 3.2 MB/s

Measured with Sysinfo.

[djbase]

terminator4 wrote:
@JimmySage

Well said.  I always find it wasteful putting a newer IDE hard disk in Amiga, or any SCSI3 or SCA drives in Amiga, b/c the speed is never utilized.  Nothing cool in that.

Well, yes and no. Of course you won't reach the max. data throughput of the drives but flash drives will beat every mechanical drive at access time. Also they run cooler and without any noise. So with a flash drive (like SSD, CF,...) you will get some nice advantages.

[spirantho]

SSDs aren't much faster than normal disks, but the access times are where they make up the ground. Hence you'll still see things speed up a lot even if your current disk maxes out your bus.

For what it's worth, I have an OCZ series 2 SSD (30GB) in my 600MHz Sam440, and it reads 90MB/Sec.

As you can imagine, that system is no slouch....

[MozzerFan]

DJBase wrote:

terminator4 wrote:
@JimmySage

Well said.  I always find it wasteful putting a newer IDE hard disk in Amiga, or any SCSI3 or SCA drives in Amiga, b/c the speed is never utilized.  Nothing cool in that.

Well, yes and no. Of course you won't reach the max. data throughput of the drives but flash drives will beat every mechanical drive at access time. Also they run cooler and without any noise. So with a flash drive (like SSD, CF,...) you will get some nice advantages.

Those are exactly the reasons why I put A 2 GB SSD in my A500 HD8+. I didn't do it for the speed. The HD8+ SCSI controller maxes out at 3.5 MB/s anyway (BTW I'm getting 2 MB/s with the SSD), but the silent operation of the drive and the SSD running cooler and using less power were my main reasons for putting it in my HD8+.

I tried a CF adapter, but it wouldn't work with my sandisk ultra II 2 GB card (got write errors), but it would work perfectly with an old 128 MB Toshiba CF card.
I didn't want to try out all kinds of different brands of CF cards, so I just put in an SSD.

[Amithony]

Im still stewing over a Sam440 while they still exist, problem is its always out of stock. Quite dissapointing, though sticking a SSD in there is something i am dying to try. Anyone got one they want to offload perchance?

[Amithony]

DJBase wrote:
I have a Transcend 32GB SSD in my Amiga 1200 on B1260 SCSI Kit and get 9 MB/s (thats nearly the max. of that SCSI Kit). So in my case it is very useful. Not cheap but useful.

How much did that end up costing you?

[spirantho]

The SAM was £400 I think (in stock now, I believe), the SSD card was about £85 or so. Still a lot cheaper in real terms than my first A500....