How much hard disk space do you need for SE/30?

[ben68]

The SCSI2SD adapter can take 4-32GB SD cards (more?) but why would you need so much space? 

Considering that it shipped with a 20MB hard drive originally, I would think that a 1GB drive would be more than enough. Am I wrong?

Because if that's so, then a ROM-inator with 4GB of ROM disk would be more than enough for an SE/30 (and I wouldn't need to buy a SCSI2SD).

?

Thanks -

 

[Skate323k137]

I do two partitions or drives of 2gb each. I have enough space for anything I could need. 

 

[ben68]

That's what I thought. So for an SE/30, I could theoretically just install a ROMinator and disconnect the HD.

What I like about the ROMinator also is that it's pre-loaded with utilities and such. Hopefully I can mount my external ZIP drive.

Thanks!

 

[Skate323k137]

No problem.

I've used a scsi2sd as a "zip drive" on my SE. I used the external scsi port with system 7. With the drivers it works fine, so I imagine your real zip drive would work fine as well. 

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Nope, ROMinator's Read Only Memory, you'll still need an HDD or SCSI2SD to do much more than play the games and run the utilities. You could use the Zip for data writes for running other apps, but I imagine it would be a bit unwieldly.

Still gotta ask BMOW to add Iomega Guest and SCSI-probe to his universal image.

 

[ben68]

Yeah - thanks for the reality check. No saving of anything - I thought I found a simple solution.