With an AT, would you rather?

[lyonadmiral]

With an AT would you rather have two 40 meg hard disks and 1 1.2 meg floppy or 1 hard disk and 2 floppies? Personal preferences?

 

[krebizfan]

I had 2 floppy drives and 2 hard drives. Is there a 40MB full height hard drive? All the ones I remember were half-height with the ST-4096 full height having 80 MB. I would prefer having two half height IDE drives to any full height MFM drive; the ST-4096 was loud. If any export of data is needed, that second floppy drive bay has multiple claimants for occupancy.

 

[Jimmy]

The one I have two floppies and a hard drive.

 

[glitch]

I'd have the two floppies, preferably a 1.2 MB 5.25" and a 720 KB 3.5".

 

[KC9UDX]

Two floppies, 1.2M and 720k, and one Plus 20 Hardcard.

 

[Stone]

Two floppies, 1.2M and 720k, and one Plus 20 Hardcard.

With that configuration you'd still have one free drive bay.

 

[NeXT]

One hard drive and one floppy drive.
Probably throw in the other bay an era authentic Hitachi 1X CD-ROM caddy loader

 

[SpidersWeb]

Now: One hard drive, +1.2 and 360KB drives
Back then: Dual hard drives!

 

[Chuck(G)]

2 floppies (1.44M and 1.2M) and a 9.1 GB FH SCSI hard drive.

 

[glitch]

and a 9.1 GB FH SCSI hard drive.

I had an Adaptec AHA-1522 in mine for a while, using a Bernoulli 90 MB drive with it.

 

[Chuck(G)]

I believe mine has a DTC SCSI controller in it; also supports 3 floppy drives.

 

[KC9UDX]

With that configuration you'd still have one free drive bay.

Precisely. Gotta have somewhere to put that ZIP or CDROM drive eventually.

 

[Stone]

Two floppies, 1.2M and 720k, and one Plus 20 Hardcard.

I've got a 16-bit Quantum 170 Hardcard that I'm not using. It would go a lot farther than the 20.

 

[modem7]

Now: One hard drive, +1.2 and 360KB drives

Ditto. There are times when I want to quickly transfer data from my IBM AT to a computer that only has a 360K drive/s.

 

[lyonadmiral]

Now: One hard drive, +1.2 and 360KB drives
Back then: Dual hard drives!

I have two AT's and want to put them together in the most souped up configuration that would be period authentic.

 

[Stone]

The 170 MB drive would be a great start.