| From: | Jonathan Day |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2001 at 19:38:09 |
| Subject: | Re: AA22 review of the PlexWriter |
Hi Alan
> > The main thing that came across in the review, to me anyway, was that
this
> > drive was IDE, and IDE is crap. I acknowledge that Neil does clearly
state
>
> ummm, UDMA-100 IDE is perfectly fine for the average-semipro user. the old
> IDE is naff...A1200 with PIO-0 IDE is dire. In fact the modern IDE
> interface will outrun average SCSI-II controllers.
Taken in context of not just what you have quoted, this was actually what I
was talking about :-)
> > Plenty of RAM? Eh? What's this? There's no mention of RAM in the review.
Is
> > there a minimum required? And what is "plenty" nowadays on an Amiga, it
used
> > to be 8Mb? (I have 32Mb Fast, BTW)
>
> well, lets put it this way, i have a 32Mb BUFFER for my CDWriting...yes,
> thats just a buffer. by system has 96Mb of RAM. that 32Mb buffer buys me
> enough time not to have underruns.
Ah. Still, I will be going for at least 128Mb when I get my AmigaONE :-)
> > going exclusively 'Classic Amiga' magazine forever..." Whilst I know
David
> > was talking about content not directly Amiga related, I feel that it is
all
> > part of the same thing. To me, it seemed as if the PlexWriter got a
"bad"
> > review cos the Amiga IDE interface is crap where-as it should have been
the
> > other way round.
>
> ?? what a bad review because the interface is good? Its not plextors
> fault that the old Amigas have PIO-0 IDE interfaces from the dawn of IDE
> time :-|
No, The PlexWriter should have been given a "good" review: the quality of
the drive is good, it's the crap IDE that the machine was tested on that was
letting it down.
> only modern U-160 SCSI stuff is worth looking at to beat modern IDE. as
> for USB? yeach, avoid THAT for disk/cd access. Firewite is fine (as is
> USB-II, but not the classic USB)
Cheers Alan
Jon
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