Check out what Rodney Grieves wrote on 30 Dec 96  05:59:00:

 RG>  Greets ALL!

 RG>  Could someone please give me some advice on hard-drives?
 RG>  I require a second drive about 1.6Gb.
 RG>  I have a plain A4000/030 with no SCSI and so would need an IDE drive.
 RG>  Would there be any problem in buying an EIDE?
 RG>  I think I'll have to choose between Western Digital, Maxtor and
 RG>  Quantum. Are these three brands OK?
 RG>  The W.D. Caviar seems to be good kit.... would it be OK with my
 RG>  set-up?

 RG>  No sarky remarks, please.... I'm still getting over the Miami
 RG>  fiasco!

 RG>  With thanks...........

 RG>  Bye now ...Rodney  rgrieves{at}cougar.multiline.com.au

E-IDE drives should work fine, although the Amiga's IDE interface won't
take advantage of the drive's Enhanced IDE design. You'll get around
1.7mb/sec transfers.

I've got a 2.5gig Quantum installed in my A1200 and it works fine. Even
though it doesn't cold-boot, but you only have to swith the machine on once
a day, so that's not much of a hassle.

I reccomend the Segate Slimline Hard-Drives highly ! They are slightly more
expensive than the others, but they're the best and most reliable
Hard-drives you can get for your Amiga. (I wish I bought one instead of the
Quantum, but it gets a bit too expensive at 2.5gig)

An advice : Get the largest possible drive you can afford ! I thought this
2.5gig was going to be enough, but I've only had it for 3 months and I have
to buy a JAZ-drive soon for extra storage, as it's already 80% full.

Cheers,

Stephen Fellner

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