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@f02@t2@cNew hard-drives
@t5@f00The race for the smallest hard drive
continues with the new serie of drives
from the American based company 'ICD'.
They produced the so-called Novia 20i
internal hard- drive for the Amiga
(which is placed where usually the
internal drive is). The Novia 20i is
a 2 inch harddrive offering you a
maximum of 20 MB storage, at a
ridiculously high price of 400 Pounds.
Even more ridiculous prices coming
up !! The new model is called the Pris
ma, it's a 3.5 inch internal harddrive
and is installed at exactly the same
place as the Novia 20i. The 3.5 inch
disc means it will be able to contain
more MB's: either 52 or 105 (strange
@^
quantities??). Names are: Prisma 52i
or Prisma 105i (very original names
eh) and cost respectively 650 and 900
Dollar.
To use the new drives you must have
1MB of RAM in your machine. The drives
are connected directly to the 68000
chip using a new kind of interface
made by Quantum of America ( access
time 11 M.secs) and will be placed on
the internal diskdrive spot (after the
3.5 internal is removed ofcoz). This
will leave the external hard disc
connector free for your use (plug in
another Action Replay !!).
But what will happen to the internal
3.5?? That's what I wondered, in fact
but this problem has also been solved.
@#
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@t5(well, not really). When you have
installed the system, the manual
advises you to throw away the good old
Chinon (or whatever is in there)
drive. With the hard-drive comes a
boot- selector that will allow you to
emulate an external drive into df0:..
This means you need to have an
external drive to be able to run your
Amiga ever again, so add the price of
an external to the price of this
hard-disc as well... So... Buy this
or not? The Novia is designed for
people that want to make their Amiga
portable. But the A500 is much to big
for that, so there's no real use for
this. Fact is, of course, the VERY
fast access-time of this drive, but
the price remains ridiculous, there
are drives with a larger capacity that
are cheaper, but of course suffer a
@^
slower access - time. Actually, I
@t5really can't imagine who would buy a
drive like this, unless the price of
the drive went down drastically, or
unless the protable Amiga was
introduced at last... And the good
old A590 is coming down in price quite
fast, and depite of its vacuum-
cleaner- like noise you can live with
it, and there are great speed-up
packages available, even packages that
enhance the storage to up to 100 MB...
@t3Cybersonik - Anarchy
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