A1200 hardisk speed

Fabie · 17 February 2010, 07:01

My old A1200' hardisk has the super speed of 195kb p/s (according to sysinfo)
is that normal? or must be fast?
that's aprox the speed of a CDROM 1x
The drive is a seatgate 120mb

my question are ...

how fast is your old A1200 hardisk?
and
how fast are the old A500 hardisks ?

gulliver · 17 February 2010, 07:15

With an A1200 you may achieve between 800KB/s upto 2.5MB/s. Factors such as the current accelerator fitted, and the type of drive will make your Amiga 1200 to go either way. My best recomendation is to use a modern Flash/SSD solution, so that you may reach that 2.5MB/s.
The filesystem used, and the scsi.device driver will also play an important role towards drive transfer speed issues.
My old A1200 drive could give me about 1.7MB/s. My actual one goes upto 2.2MB/s (I am using and ide to sd adapter + an SDHC card Class 6).
I dont have any A500 to give you information about.

Fabie · 17 February 2010, 15:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by gulliver

With an A1200 you may achieve between 800KB/s upto 2.5MB/s. Factors such as the current accelerator fitted, and the type of drive will make your Amiga 1200 to go either way. My best recomendation is to use a modern Flash/SSD solution, so that you may reach that 2.5MB/s.
The filesystem used, and the scsi.device driver will also play an important role towards drive transfer speed issues.
My old A1200 drive could give me about 1.7MB/s. My actual one goes upto 2.2MB/s (I am using and ide to sd adapter + an SDHC card Class 6).
I dont have any A500 to give you information about.

thanks for your answer but I want to know how fast are the old hardisks of the A1200....the ones originals that comes with the machine...generally seatgate 40mb,80mb,120mb and 170mb

rkauer · 17 February 2010, 23:03

Even those ancient disks use to give around 600kb/s on unexpanded A1200.

If yours is giving this low speed transfer, something is very wrong with it. Replace with a modern(ish) unit as soon as you can.

Fabie · 18 February 2010, 00:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkauer

Even those ancient disks use to give around 600kb/s on unexpanded A1200.

If yours is giving this low speed transfer, something is very wrong with it. Replace with a modern(ish) unit as soon as you can.

600kb/s ?

are you sure?

why then my hardisk is so slow?

btw,just for curiosity...how fast are the old A500 hardisks? examples GVP and the others

rkauer · 19 February 2010, 05:14

My Add_Hard goes from ~400kb/s without FAST RAM to up 850kb/s with some.

GVP units goes from 950kb/s up to 3.5Mb/s with 68000 CPU!

Photon · 24 February 2010, 18:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkauer

If yours is giving this low speed transfer, something is very wrong with it. Replace with a modern(ish) unit as soon as you can.

I agree, that speed was very low. The lowest I've seen with any A500 HDD interface is 300kb/s.

17 February 2010, 07:01	#1
Fabie Banned Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: France Posts: 478	A1200 hardisk speed My old A1200' hardisk has the super speed of 195kb p/s (according to sysinfo) is that normal? or must be fast? that's aprox the speed of a CDROM 1x The drive is a seatgate 120mb my question are ... how fast is your old A1200 hardisk? and how fast are the old A500 hardisks ?

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17 February 2010, 07:15	#2
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	With an A1200 you may achieve between 800KB/s upto 2.5MB/s. Factors such as the current accelerator fitted, and the type of drive will make your Amiga 1200 to go either way. My best recomendation is to use a modern Flash/SSD solution, so that you may reach that 2.5MB/s. The filesystem used, and the scsi.device driver will also play an important role towards drive transfer speed issues. My old A1200 drive could give me about 1.7MB/s. My actual one goes upto 2.2MB/s (I am using and ide to sd adapter + an SDHC card Class 6). I dont have any A500 to give you information about.

17 February 2010, 23:03	#4
rkauer I hate potatos and shirts Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Sao Leopoldo / Brazil Age: 58 Posts: 3,482	Even those ancient disks use to give around 600kb/s on unexpanded A1200. If yours is giving this low speed transfer, something is very wrong with it. Replace with a modern(ish) unit as soon as you can.

19 February 2010, 05:14	#6
rkauer I hate potatos and shirts Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Sao Leopoldo / Brazil Age: 58 Posts: 3,482	My Add_Hard goes from ~400kb/s without FAST RAM to up 850kb/s with some. GVP units goes from 950kb/s up to 3.5Mb/s with 68000 CPU!

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