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Originally Posted by ItsTheSmell
John Hertell said it in the FB group but im not on there anymore. He seems to know his onions regarding Amiga's.
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Indeed he does. Flash does wear out eventually, though unless you're buying very cheap brands of compact flash, by the time you do enough writing to cause that sort of failure, you'd probably have had a mechanical hard drive die of natural causes (especially one as old as a 20GB one!) The vast majority of the time the Amiga doesn't write to the hard drive - there's no virtual memory or automatic saving of settings or anything, and therefore no wear most of the time.
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whats the correct way to fasten the hard drive to the bracket? only 1 screw hole aligns and the screw needed is too fat for the brackets hole.
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As ajk says, those holes are for super old hard drives. However, I've found that in some cases using the holes on the side of the drive with some screws with large heads lets you secure newer drives in the bracket by tightening them against the edges of the two uprights.
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You could drill new holes, or use some strong double sided tape (the thicker type with foam as the middle layer works best in my experience).
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Yep, both will work fine. If you're drilling though, just make sure you remove any burrs or shavings so that you don't get a short against the drive's PCB.
In my old job we had some very old custom machines to deal with (dual 386-based beasts), and they were fitted with laptop hard drives. When the time came to replace dead drives, they came up with a lovely, neat solution - a 6mm metal plate with countersunk holes for fixing to the bottom of a new drive, and threaded holes for fitting the old bracket. I "liberated" a couple of them for use on my Amigas
