New A500 68030 accelerator from Elbox

[Bamiga2002]

Anyone notice this:
http://www.elbox.com/news_13_12_06.html

"Features:
• 68030 processor (with MMU) clocked at 40MHz
• 16MB of fast 32-bit DRAM memory on board

• Integrated FastATA CF/SATA controller:
- Fast transfer rate of up to 16.6MB/s
- Supports PIO-0, PIO-4 and PIO-5 modes
- Two buffered and terminated EIDE ports for four devices
- AllegroCDFS filesystem included
- LBA 48 support in the onboard BootROM (support of drives over 128GB)
- Automatically configured EIDE/CF/SATA/ATAPI devices
- Can boot from FAT16 and FAT32 formatted devices

• Includes custom expansion port for local hardware add-ons
• MapROM function (uses 1MB from 16MB of the on-board DRAM)
• Compatible with trapdoor Slow memory expansions (up to 1.8 MB)
• Compatible with Chip memory expansions
• Compatible with WHDLoad software"

[tolkien]

elbox? Are they still on road?

[paul1981]

Would be nice to see some photo's of the new hardware.
Brilliant news though! Well done Elbox!

[_ThEcRoW]

Maybe they plan to release it with the shark boards as christmas present...

[lukassid]

That sounds powerful!

[wXR]

Oh indeed, this sounds good!

[lukassid]

240 euro plus vat. Not cheap.

[fitzsteve]

Cheaper then a Viper 530

[tin]

Do people trust elbox anymore? after the (forgive if my memory fails) mediator 3rd party card harddrive wiping incident?

<correction> RDB wiping

[Schoenfeld]

I'd be more interested to see benchmarks and if/how they implemented burst mode for fastmem. If they're promising feb 2014 for mass-production, there MUST be a working prototype already. Eight weeks is already really fast for organizing mass-production, so all their development and stability testing must be done by now. No reason to hold back photos, AIBB modules and Bustest results.

Jens

[DonAmiga]

This looks great a nice internal 530 hopefully Amigakit will be getting these and maybe a prototype?

[DDNI]

To me, this announcement smells like a Christmas spoiler against competitors products.

"Wait! don't buy Accelerator X for Christmas, wait and by from us at Elbox."

If this arrives in February, then I will be very impressed.

[Leffmann]

It looks like a really solid product. That 16.6MB/s HD transfer speed in particular would be amazing!

It will also be cheaper than getting the "Adapter 500" with an ACA accelerator board, and according to the Elbox website it will also be internal, whereas the Adapter 500 sort of grows out of the Amiga with all the circuitry exposed, which can't be particularly safe for it.

[crasbe]

You're gonna reach the 16,6MB/s IDE-speed like the 133,3MB/s USB-speed on the Mediator-Boards........

That's the absolute maximum what is technicly possible. Marketing. In the real world that's nonsense.

[mikele]

and it will fit nicely inside A500, no half-baked mess like Aca500.

If anyone wants aca500 just for a1200 expansion option, it's no brainer that Elbox sounds like a better choice.

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

It looks like a really solid product. That 16.6MB/s HD transfer speed in particular would be amazing!

They claim that for the A1200/4000 FastATA and truth is you're lucky to get 6.6mb/sec

[Leffmann]

We will never reach the theoretical max of course, but with the A1200 IDE f.ex having a theoretical max of 3.5MB/s, 16.6MB/s max sounds promising for an A500 system.

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

They claim that for the A1200/4000 FastATA and truth is you're lucky to get 6.6mb/sec

I can get around 9,500,000 with the MKIV and my ACA1231/42. With a faster accelerator I've seen till 13,107,000:

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3721

But of course, I'm talking about an A1200, dunno A500 and this accelerator..

[fitzsteve]

Delshay's doesn't count

You 9.5mb/sec is impressive though, I've squeezed about 8mb/sec out of my old MkII FastATA

[BarryB]

But will it fit inside if you have an Indivision ECS installed though?