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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 Hard Drive Recommendations?
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Date: 7 Jun 89 00:53:59 GMT
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In article <19141@cup.portal.com> silver@cup.portal.com (Jim B Howard) writes:
->Well, speaking from experience, DONT get the StarBoard SCSI Controller.
->I have the misfortune of owning one, and it is just _barely_ faster
->than a floppy drive.  Even Microbotics admits this.  Get anything else.

This is strange, I use a StarDrive controller on my A1000 and it is plenty
fast. Not as fast as the HardFrame in the 2000 but that is to be expected.
It is on the order of about 5 times faster than the floppy (125K/s vs 25K/s)
and that seems reasonable to me for a $90 street price SCSI interface.


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