#Hard Drive Choices
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I am considering the purchase of a hard disk for my A2000. I am specifically
looking at a MiniScribe 40 ms type hard drive (probably 40 MB). I also own a
Bridge Board. This raises the question as to whether I should buy this drive
with an IBM disk drive controller (neglible additional cost) or an Amiga
A2090 ST506/SCSI controller ($300). I will be using the drive, in either
case, mainly for my Amiga side. Can anyone give me any rough data or
benchmarks regarding how fast the IBM vs Amiga ST506 vs Amiga SCSI drives
access times would be?
Steven,
The access to a Hard drive on the PC side is relatively slow. The
data has to be transfered thru the JANUS interface. Using an Amiga side HD
with the BridgeBoard I figure it's only about 1.5 to 2x the speed of a floppy
on the BridgeBoard. I would presume that using a PC side HD as an Amiga
drive would be about the same speed since my HD when used by the Amiga side
is significantly faster…like 10 or better times as fast.
With that in mind…I'd get the 2090 and put it on the Amiga side
since you state that you use the Amiga side for the most part.
Don