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- From: cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath)
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- Subject: Re: what kind of hd for a 1200?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 12:39:16 +0100
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- bc977@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Victor Prasad) writes:
-
- > i am considering getting an external hd of r my 1200 via an xds
- >dataflyer or some other dsort of device...
-
- > what is a good hard drive to get? ie. name brand?
-
- SCSI device? right. Well any of the Quantums
- FireBall/Lightning 1Meg+ are good drives
-
- > how important is cache and transfer rate ie. 12ms vs 10 ms?
-
- Transfer rates are more important most drives register at around
- ~2 Meg/Sec or there abouts with good O3O card and SysInfo tests.
-
- The difference between 10 & 12ms is minimal if not negligible
- probably only make a difference on VirtualMem apps, who knows ?
-
- > my 2.5" 120 mb internal hd transfers 197 000bytes/s - whidch is
- >too slow...
-
- That's not a Seagate is it ?!?!
-
- >will i be able to boot off a new hd drive that is faster from the
- >dataflyer?
-
- Why not chuck your 2.5" and replace it with an IDE 3. 5", they
- are extremely fast!
-
- > also..what is the deal the with 1260 accels? do they exist yet?
- >anybody have one? how do they work?
-
- They exist and are now coming thru' in numbers. I don`t have
- one, but they *are* fast. There maybe an AIBB module on Aminet
- for it. They work by pluging into the trapdoor slot and
- installing a small patch in WBStartup.
-
- > what is the deal with amiga RISC computers?
-
- Sometime 1997 i think.
-
- >soon i am going to have to go pc (ugh), i can't use a 1200 and
- >expect to be upto date....
- ^^^^
- To what?
-
- Depends on your needs, i was thinking of going PC but i gave it
- more thought and at the moment my Amiga *is not* holding me back
- on anything.
-
- GVN
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