What did you pay for your first Harddrive to your Amiga

[Jonathan Drain]

Originally Posted by alexh

A600HD bought for £400 in 1992 would cost £632 in today's money.

You can buy a dual-core 3GHz machine for that nowadays. Four thousand megabytes of RAM, a million megabytes of hard disk, Internet connections faster than your Amiga's hard disk. The march of technology is amazing, isn't it?

I had an A600HD too. The 20MB hard disk gave up after twenty years and its replacement is a 4GB laptop drive that cost £4 on ebay

I also once bought a 2x PCMCIA CD drive for £90. Now I can get a DVD burner for a quarter of that.

[StingRay]

About 900 DM (450 EUR) in 1991 for a 105MB Protar HD. Those were the days. Some months later I paid 600 DM (300 EUR) for a 60MB HD for my A1200.

[alexh]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Drain

You can buy a dual-core 3GHz machine for that nowadays. Four thousand megabytes of RAM, a million megabytes of hard disk, Internet connections faster than your Amiga's hard disk. The march of technology is amazing, isn't it?

But I think that it just shows that the relative price of computers has come down considerably over the years. The Amiga was cheap back then compared to even the cheapest PC or Apple Mac.

[chiark]

Spirit HDA-506 from Bytes'n'Pieces at the Novotel Commodore Fair in 1989.
Special show offer. £499.
For a 20MB hard disk.
That didn't work because the cables had been damaged

Something crazy like £160 for a 120MB 2.5 drive for my A1200 from Power Computing. It was probably late 80's, still got it and it still works !

[fryguy]

I paid 3500SEK about 350€ for my 120MB 2.5" hd. Both my A1200 with it.

[Mogilny]

About €400-500 for a 52 Mb GVP HD. Don't remember which year, but probably x-mas 91.

[Mick_AKA]

I had an archos?! drive that plugged onto the side of my original a500, i remember we had to buy the 40mb drive separately from the same place in Wales where we mail ordered it, it was probably some utterly obscene amount of money but sadly I cant remember.

[Madcrow]

Nothing. My only physical Amiga is a floppy-only A500!

[jmmijo]

This is a hard one for me, unlike my father and brother whom both purchased the GVP A530 Turbo's for their A500's, I had purchased a used A2000 that came with a combo IDE/SCSI interface card + ram expansion.

I think I paid around $700.00(USD) for the unit back in the day, the person needed cash so I swooped in

The nice thing with this Zorro card was you could mount a 3.5" HDD onto the card and connect either a SCSI or IDE cable depending on the model of HDD you purchased, I bought a Seagate 40MB from a local vendor, a SCSI-I type drive for $415.00 or so...

[Paul_s]

GVP HD8+ with 52MB. I think I ended up taking it back as my Amiga ran out of memory! I only realised a few years later it could take extra RAM! oops.

I bought an 1200 instead when we took it back and paid £100 a few years later for a 1GB HDD in 1995'ish.

[Zed]

Originally Posted by alexh

If you use an online inflation calculator you'll find that the prices are even higher than you remember.

E.G. $500 in 1987 is $944.26 in today's money.

That's true, I didn't think of that. Hmm, that will make my 6800 swedish crown to about 10800 swedish crown today. That's about 1080 euros. I can't belive that I have put so much money on a 20 Mb harddrive. That's about 54 euros for each Mb.

[Skope]

My first HD was a 52MB SCSI-drive for my A500 which I think I got in 1995. It was used and I think I paid something like 500 SEK for it (roughly 50 EUR). Never really liked HD's, I was always a MF2DD guy, though on my A1200 it was impossible to live without.

[Photon]

I was pretty late to buy a harddisk, I think it was not until 1991. It was a Trumpcard 500 Pro with 52MB SCSI harddisk, I still use the Trumpcard and I still have the harddisk in a box. It cost about 4500-4800 SEK IIRC.

In 2005 I managed to destroy the bootrom when I assembled my A500 setup again, this time with SCSI Zipdrive instead of harddisk. Worked fine for a few years and now I use it with SCSI-IDE adapter and a CF card.

If I add together the prices of all components, the whole rig probably cost me at least 19400 SEK in 1991 money! Not counting disks, joysticks, printer, software etc. That amount would have given me a very decent used car, but you have to have priorities (c) The Abyss

[tin]

I paid £330 for a 300mb hard drive for my A1200 back in 1994. It was from software demon, who promptly "went bust" and took my money

[Dunny]

Paid £300 for a 260mb Drive for my A1200 back in the day. Got a 360mb drive, so bit of a win there.

However, two months ago I bought a 1TB drive.... and paid £60. Gawsh, how times change.

D.

[KatManDEW]

My first HD was a 40 meg Quantum that came on a GVP 040 card for my A2000. It was 1988 if I remember correctly. Total cost for the GVP 040 and Quantum was $1295 USD!!! I purchased it mail order. I came home from work in a snow storm to find a note from the postman that said "back door". I went to my snow covered back porch and could not find a package, but I found a yellow spot in the deep snow by the back porch steps. Upon investigation, my package with my GVP card was under that yellow spot in the snow. A dog had urinated on it.

I still have the GVP card and it still works. The Quantum HD bit the dust many years ago.

A590 with 20MB XT [! - 80ms seek time!!] and 2MB RAM - £640 in (I think) 1991. That would be about GBP 1000/EUR 1135/USD 1560/CAD 1650 now. That summer, I bought a USR Courier 9600/14400 HST for about the same price.

Stewart
(former reviewer/writer for a bunch of UK Amiga mags)

[source]

My 2000 came with a 30 meg ide drive that had to be accessed through a floppy boot drive. I am not sure how much it cost. In 89 I purchased a supra drive with 40 meg Quantum drive. This was a nice step up seeing it was an autobooting drive. If I remember correctly it was around 400$ Canadian. Then a year later I added a 50 meg drive for 300$. I was disappointed that the Supra SCSI card would cause errors when copying files from one drive directly to the other. I had to copy to the ram disk then copy over to the other drive to avoid the problem. I then purchased a Seagate 80 Meg SCSI and ISA SCSI controller for my bridgeboard. The only drive that is still working is the original 40 Meg drive. I used it couple weeks ago to rip a Kickstart image of the 1.3 roms. Now this 2000 has a 1 gig SCSI drive and am using a 16 gig usb thumb drive on Deneb as a secondary hard drive.

[Shadowfire]

US$1800 for a 30mb SupraDrive for the A500 (1988?). I had ordered the 20mb part for that price, but they had no 20mb drives and shipped me the 30mb one.