BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com (09/12/90)
Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system
for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501
board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations
or horror stories they would send me. Thanks.
- FBjsevinsk@digi.lonestar.org (John Sevinsky) (09/14/90)
In article <30225@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes: > > Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system >for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501 >board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations >or horror stories they would send me. Thanks. > > - FB I too will be buying a hard disk soon. I have been thinking about the Supra Drive 500XP with a 40 MB disk and 2 MB of expansion RAM. I saw it advertised for $749 from a mail order place. Does anybody know anything about this disk drive?
mental (Sean Kellner) (09/14/90)
> Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system > for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501 > board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendation > or horror stories they would send me. Thanks. Look in the recent Creative Computers add. It lists a 48 megger for the 500 for only $400. If money isnt your limiting factor I hear golem is bringing one to the US that can achieve 850k/sec, or around there anyways. I don't think it was supposed to be expensive at all, just I haven't heard when its available. sean
umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner) (09/14/90)
In article <971@digi.lonestar.org> jsevinsk@digi.lonestar.org (John Sevinsky) writes: >In article <30225@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes: >> >> Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system >>for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501 >>board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations >>or horror stories they would send me. Thanks. >> >> - FB > >I too will be buying a hard disk soon. I have been thinking about the >Supra Drive 500XP with a 40 MB disk and 2 MB of expansion RAM. I saw it >advertised for $749 from a mail order place. Does anybody know anything >about this disk drive? The drive seems to work fine. Unfortunately, I have not had a lot of time between work and school to do anything extensive with it, wrt putting software on it, putting it through some serious paces, etc. But having come up from using a C-128 6 weeks ago, a 3 Meg A500, two drives with a 40 Meg Hard drive is a dream system! :) Based on net.advice, I ordered my drive from Safe Harbor, in Wisconsin. They have added another satisfied customer to their list, as it came in about the right amount of time, and the price was right. (I actually got charged $20 LESS than the price I was quoted on the phone.) Daryl Turner <umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
cring@hpihoah.HP.COM (Craig Ring) (09/15/90)
I purchased a Supra 500 XP from Montgomery Grant a few weeks ago. So far I have been very happy with it. I bought it with 512K and added the other 1.5 Meg myself. The hard drive itself is made by Connor. Connor hard drives are used in the Mac portable, and have a very good reputation for being fast, reliable and low power. According to Supra, no external power supply is necessary, and I haven't been using one. The drive has an Amiga bus pass-through, as well as an additional SCSI port, for adding more SCSI peripherals (like an additional drive.) A "game switch" on the back allows you to disable the hard drive, while keeping the expansion memory available for games which can use the memory, but not the hard drive. The hard drive came formatted with FFS, and with 1.3 already installed. Getting the drive up was as easy as plugging it onto the side of my Amiga, and turning the Amiga on. My Amiga autobooted from the hard drive in a fraction of the time it takes to boot from floppy. So far I am a satisfied customer. Craig Ring Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino cring@hpihoah.hp.com
mlelias@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Mike Elias (Mighty Amigo) Systems Analysis) (09/18/90)
In article <30225@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, BYRNE@muppet.dnet.ge.com writes: > Hopefully in the near future I will be purchasing a hard drive system > for my A500 (A500, 1 external floppy (the big clunky Commodore one :-), A501 > board, stock power supply). I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations > or horror stories they would send me. Thanks. > I bought a GVP 30 mg. HD about 1 year ago. It is very reliable, moderately fast and was easy to install. There are only 2 problems. 1: cost COST CCOOSSTT!!! (way too much) Close to $800 with the auto-boot. 2: The fan sounds not unlike a jet engine winding up for take-off. You get used to the noise, but the neighbors might not. :) And if you are watching TV, listening to the radio, etc... It can be VERY annoying. > - FB -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Elias | It is reasonable to hope that in the not to distant Mlelias@Miavx1.Bitnet | future we shall be competent to understand so simple Miami U. Oxford, Oh. | a thing as a star. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------