Running out of HD space....

[Puni/Void]

Got myself a new SCSI HD-controller for the Amiga 500. It did originally come with a whopping 20MB HD. Guess I'll have to get a bigger one.

[Harrison]

Which A500 controller did you get? And what is the max size of SCSI HDD it can support? You can get 4GB SCSI drives in ebay for under £5, but it seems smaller than that are harder to find, or the sellers are asking more. I've seen a 1.05GB drive for about £10, but most that size or slightly more are going for £25-50 which is mad.

[Puni/Void]

I got hold of an Commodore A590 HD. For more information about the controller, see here.

It includes one of the latest versions of the ROM, so it has been reported that it can handle HD's up to 9GB.

I'm thinking of getting an HD for it that is about 500MB to 1GB in size. That's more than enough, since the A1200 is my main machine.

The next items on the list is a ROM-switcher and an extra set of ROM's. Do you have any lefterover A500 items by the way?

[Harrison]

I've never really done much upgrading of A500's beyond the trapdoor expansions and kickstart roms, so don't have much in ther way of upgrades, and no side bus expansions at all. I've concentrated on the A600, A1200 and A4000 the most over the years.

I might have some old SCSI drives but not sure. I will have a look.

[Puni/Void]

I can't remember how it was like to run out of HD-space. Now I got more space than I need! What I run out of now is space in the home.

[Harrison]

so true with children. They take up so much space.

I still run out of hdd space though. My 2TB drive for Steam games was full last week, and it's becoming a problem with new games now taking up over 40GB each in some cases.

[Stephen Coates]

How much HDD storage do you have now Harrison?

I'm still on the 500GB drive I got in early 2010 and it still has quite a bit of free space.

[Harrison]

Rough guess is somewhere around 40TB.

[Kin Hell]

Rough guess is somewhere around 40TB.

ROFL!

[Harrison]

What is everyone else's totals these days?

I've just been reading back through this thread and it's amazing that only 5 years ago storage spaces were so much lower. With the takeover of streaming media and download content over physical media we are needing hdd storage more these days.

Compared to 2009 I now store all my films on my server's hdds and stream it to my smart tv. I hardly every play a DVD or BD any more. And I can't remember the last time I played a CD.

Although I'm finding the opposite is true for my tablet.. which only needs storage for apps. Years ago it was a struggle to store content on mobile devices, but now with streaming services like Spotify, youtube and Play you really don't need to store content. Obviously you need an internet connection or this approach makes the device next to useless, but I tend to only use mine at home via wifi.