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- From: cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard-Disk info wanted!
- Message-ID: <713726597.7224.0@unix7.andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 09:23:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: unix7.713726597.7224.0
- References: <cvmalone.713715201@unix2.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 37
- In-Reply-To: <cvmalone.713715201@unix2.tcd.ie>
-
- In message <cvmalone.713715201@unix2.tcd.ie>,
- cvmalone@unix2.tcd.ie (Colm Malone) writes:
- >I am an addicted Amiga user here in Ireland. The Amiga I have is the A500 and
- >was kindly lent to me by a friend of mine who has gone away for the summer.
- >However, as my friend will be coming back soon and will be wanting his
- >Amiga back - the only way I can see myself not suffering from severe
- >withdrawal syptoms is to buy my own Amiga!
- >
- >I want to be able to program on my Amiga-to-be and the only way I can see
- >myself doing this efficiently is with a hard-disk. What I want to know is, is
- >the Amiga 500 and the A590 20MB hard-disk a good combination or could I do
- >better? My mother is going over to the US next week - so I would like to take
- >advantage of the cheaper hardware prices that the US has.
- >
- >I can get an Amiga 500 quite reasonable second-hand here in Ireland so I
- >would like to know what the US prices are for hard-disks (and also maybe an
- >add-on-driver) - hopefully not more than $350 (approx 200 Irish pounds).
- >I know very little as regards the multitude of hardware available for the
- >Amiga and I am just wondering would I be holding myself with an A500 with
- >respect to hard-disks, or should I think of a more powerful Amiga - again
- >money is the only thing holding me back!
- >
- >I would very much appreciate any advise anyone can give - Thanks,
- >Colm.
-
- If 20 meg is enough, you should consider the Novia 20i internal IDE drive
- from ICD. It may not be as fast as the A590, but then it wouldn't stick
- out and fill up your desk.
-
- This drive is reviewed in the June '92 Amiga World (US). Do you guys get
- AW over there?
-
- Installation not too hard if you're not afraid to pull the 68000.
-
- It's too new a product for there to be much info about reliability.
-
- Cheap mail order price is about US$240.
-