Hard disks

Hard disk prices are still falling every month. The decisions you need to make are whether you want an IDE or SCSI drive and how much you want to spend. We can then advise you as to how large a drive you can get.

If you have a new Risc PC 600 or Risc PC 700 running RISC OS 3.6 or you are a clan member and are running the beta-test filecore then you can use nearly any size of hard disc.

If not you will be limited to a partition size of 512Mbytes. Additionally if you are using an Acorn SCSI card or the internal IDE drive you will not be able to partition the drive so any space over 512Mbytes will be unusable. It is still often worth buying a 540Mbyte disk and formatting it to ignore some of the disk.

Removeable drives

We can supply several types of removeable drive all for internal or external mounting. 3.5" devices can be fitted in the second floppy bay of an A5000 or RiscPC, 5.25" devices can be fitted in the spare bay of Risc PC or an MEU (Multimedia Expansion Unit).

3.5" Syquest: 270Mb per disc, IDE or SCSI, fast seek and access times
3.5" Magneto-Optical: 230Mb per disc, SCSI, slower seek and access times, cheaper media.
5.25" Phase-change + CDROM: 600Mb per disc, SCSI, and doubles as a quad-speed CDROM drive.

Sundries

We can supply any other bits and pieces you may need, including

SCSI terminator
SCSI cables, internal and external, with a many connectors as you wish,
IDE splitter cables
Power splitter cables

We can obtain special cables if you need extra length or a non-standard connector.