samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) (02/27/88)
I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000. Due to economic limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a hard drive. Which do you think should be given priority, if it has to one or the other for now? Would also appreciate any recommendations, based upon satisfactory performance, of either, or both of those devices. Forgot to mention that my 1000 at present has 512K. Thanks for any advice or leads!
steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) (02/29/88)
In article <3158@dasys1.UUCP> samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) writes: >I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000. Due to economic >limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a >hard drive. Which do you think should be given priority, >if it has to one or the other for now? Would also appreciate >any recommendations, based upon satisfactory performance, of >either, or both of those devices. Forgot to mention that my >1000 at present has 512K. Thanks for any advice or leads! I'd go with the hard drive first. If you get memory, fine, you'll be able to run more programs at once etc. but you'll probably have to keep swapping floppies to load them in and things will be none too fast. (You didn't mention how many floppy drives you had). However, if you go with the hard drive, you will notice a significant speed up in the environment, and although you can't keep as many programs resident at one time, loading them will be a lot quicker. This is my opinion and someone's sure to disagree. Steve
bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) (03/01/88)
steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes: >In article <3158@dasys1.UUCP> samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) writes: >>I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000. Due to economic >>limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a >>hard drive. Which do you think should be given priority, > >I'd go with the hard drive first. If you get memory, fine, you'll be able to Yes. I disagree - unless you have a lot of files that you really want to keep on something besides floppies (like a hard drive) I would go for more RAM, and bear in mind that NOTHING says you have to turn the computer OFF just because you go to sleep at night. It's like running a light bulb - it won't break the bank, and you'll have all yer programs in RAM ready to multitask or flip to when you need 'em. Bill UUCP: {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax rutgers!marque}!gryphon!pnet02!bilbo INET: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com
yann@ai.toronto.edu (Yann le Cun) (03/02/88)
In article <3158@dasys1.UUCP> samw@dasys1.UUCP (Sam Weissman) writes: >I have to make a choice, for my Amiga 1000. Due to economic >limitations I can only purchase a memory expansion...or a >hard drive. Which do you think should be given priority, >if it has to one or the other for now? Would also appreciate >any recommendations, based upon satisfactory performance, of >either, or both of those devices. Forgot to mention that my >1000 at present has 512K. Thanks for any advice or leads! I'd go for the memory first. With 2.5Meg you can load around 1meg of useful stuff in a recoverable ram disk and still have 1.5 meg to work with, If you run a shell and put the most useful files in the ram-disk (compiler, linker, more, include files, librairies....), you won't access the diskette very often. And a ram disk is faster than a hard disk. You can add a diskette cache program like FACCII if you still aren't happy. Yann le Cun yann@ai.toronto.edu, yann@ai.toronto.cdn AI Group, Dept of Computer Science yann%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 {uunet,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!yann "I hate long and fancy signatures"
haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) (03/03/88)
A Hard Drive would be the best choice for most applications. Also, many of
the Hard Drives have space for expansion RAM, which would reduce your total
outlay when eventually get more RAM, as I'm sure you will.
Good Luck,
Wade.
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INET: haitex@pnet01.CTS.COMpeter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (03/05/88)
If you can possibly live with 512K, get the drive first. Why? Because eventually the latest protectionist fervor will collapse and RAM will go down to something reasonable again. And you'll be sick that you paid 4 times as much for it. One solution, if you can afford it, would be to get the SCSI drive and an Allegra or equivalent tricked out with relatively cheap 256K parts, and upgrade it to 2 Meg when the pendulum swings back again. -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney) (03/21/88)
There is the option of memory and a second floppy. With the second floppy, you don't have to swap, you don't have to keep so much in ram, and it's cheaper than a hard disk. I like floppies tho I have a hard disk, to keep my programs on, because I feel that I'll probably crash my hard disk anyway, and there's a lot there that can be affected. It's nice to have the hard disk read times, but hard disks eat up buffers in memory too. You can always use the second floppy after you get a hard drive, and it has to be the easiest thing to sell used, because it works with all Amigas. -- Alex Laney alex@xicom.UUCP ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex Xicom Technologies, 205-1545 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada We may have written the SNA software you use. The opinions are my own.