Re: Just bursting to share

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>:>I think I saw some great deals on 20 MB scsi drives on
>:>comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.  I think they were five bucks a piece!
>
>: The problem is that Will appears to be a long time GS user.
>: The longer you use the IIGS, the more your storage needs
>: grow.  20MB is most likely not going to be enough for him.
>
>Hmm I've had a IIgs for twelve years. I expect the 230 mb hard disk on it
>to never get full. The 30 mb ProDOS volume is more or less full but the
>200 mb HFS volume has about 70 mb on it.

That's still a far cry from 20MB so on this point, we
are more or less on agreement: for longtime IIGS
users, 20MB is not enough (and neither is 40MB).

As for the actual amount of storage, it depends on
the intensity of IIGS usage.  When I got my 1GB
drive for the IIGS, my IIGS storage basically jumped.
I started saving sounds, graphics, hypercard and
hyperstudio stacks, archiving csa2, etc.  Basically,
I was free to use the IIGS as I would my Windows
unit.

I actually consider the 500-600MB content of my
IIGS lightweight.  On my Windows PC, I have
12GBs of space and several GBs of that are filled
up.

Using the IIGS the same way I use my Windows
unit results in a storage of just 500-600MB.  But
if I did not have the 1GB unit on my IIGS, I would
have to use it DIFFERENTLY and that's not good.

Before, I had about 230MB spread across the
SCSI chain over several drives.  I found myself
having to delete files left and right and using
floppy disks and later Zip disks.  Now I have
everything centralized on the IIGS hard drive.

>: For myself, like Jeff, I have a 1GB hard drive (and mine is
>: half filled up)!
>
>All the newer gig+ hard disks I've ever tried such as a 2 gig Quantum Atlas
>and 2 gig Seagate Barracuda make my IIgs act as if nothing is on the bus.
>As if putting 7200 RPM AV rated drives on an Apple II isn't the epitome of 
>overkill. My 230 mb magneto optical drive does the same thing.

Are you sure it isn't a termination problem?  My
1GB drive is an IBM brand SCSI-II unit and it
works fine.  The Iomega Jazz drive, also 1GB,
can also function with the Apple II High Speed
SCSI card.