jedi@clark-emh.arpa (Michael S. Hampton) (10/27/88)
Can anyone out there recommend an inexpensive hard drive (20 or 30 meg) for the
Amiga 500?? I have been very disapointed with the outrageous prices. I thought
that $500 for my 20meg was high (1985 price). Oh well, Any info will be
helpful. Thanks
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~jedi@clark-emh.arpa (Michael S. Hampton) (11/19/88)
Greetings! It's me again. Does anyone know of a decent 20-30 meg hard drive+controller for the A500 that is priced comprable with the IBM hard drives? What would be really nice would be an external hard drive which could be used with both IBM AND Amiga. :) Oh well. All I get to see is what I read here, because the magazines that we get here in the Philippines are about 2 - 3 months old. thanks Mike Hampton jedi@Clark-EMH.arpa
bdo8650@cec2.wustl.edu (Bryan Dennis O'Connor) (10/11/89)
I'm looking to buy a Hard Drive system for my Amiga 500. Most probably I will buy a controller separate from the drive, so I can cash in on cheap Seagate prices. The one controller that I seem to hear favorable things about is the Xetec FastTrak controller. Does anyone know anything about this? What does it come with? The cheapest price that I have found so far is $379 mailorder. My next question is kind of a generic seagate drive question. If I buy one from a Mail Order company, what does it come with? Case? Will I need to buy more than just a controller and drive? Will I need to buy a fan or power supply? (I just want to make sure that I know of every cost I am going to be having.) Thanks... And now for the uninteresting, unoriginal, unfinished .signature! ================================================================================ Bryan O'Connor | ARPA - bdo8650@cec2.wustl.edu | Washington University ================================================================================
jad@dayton.UUCP (J. Deters) (10/12/89)
[Line-eater, line-eater, munch me some text] In article <1989Oct10.200713.4753@cec1.wustl.edu> bdo8650@cec2.wustl.edu (Bryan Dennis O'Connor) writes: > > I'm looking to buy a Hard Drive system for my Amiga 500. Most >probably I will buy a controller separate from the drive, so I can cash >in on cheap Seagate prices. >[...deleted controller question that I can't answer...] > My next question is kind of a generic seagate drive question. I have some generic Seagate answers... My [day] job involves a network of about 120 IBM PC/ATs. They were installed in our stores between 1987 and 1988, and have been running continuously ever since. (We do not power our equipment down.) Some of them (maybe 10%) have Seagate C: drives, but all the rest have IBM Rochester drives throughout. Every disk drive failure we've had has been a Seagate drive. Over 70% of the Seagate drives have failed over the course of three years. Would I buy one? Nope. $pend the extra dollars for a decent drive! Your up front investment will save you no end of crap and expensive repair bills down the line. Even a starving student has to understand that a cheapo drive will cost you plenty in a year or two. >If I buy one from a Mail Order company, what does it come with? Case? >Will I need to buy more than just a controller and drive? Will I need to >buy a fan or power supply? (I just want to make sure that I know of >every cost I am going to be having.) If you buy an 'external' drive, it will come with case, power supply, and fan. If you buy an 'internal' drive, you will have to supply all mounting, power, etc. in your hardware. Hope this helps, -j -- J. Deters jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG .\ /. "Smile -- Cthulu loathes you!" john@jaded.DHDSC.MN.ORG \_____/
deevans@athena.mit.edu (David E Evans) (12/09/89)
Does anyone know what kind of options are available for installing a hard drive to the Amiga 500? Your expertise is greatly appreciated. --- Dave.