Which hardware: Gotek or SD HxC Floppy Emulator REV F ?

HxC Floppy Emulator on Amiga support
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BlankVector
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Which hardware: Gotek or SD HxC Floppy Emulator REV F ?

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I'm planning to buy a floppy emulator and use it on A500 as replacement inside an external floppy drive box.
If necessary, I also plan to buy a hardware DF0/DF1 switch to easily boot from either the internal real floppy drive or the external floppy emulator.

Which hardware is best?
- Gotek with HxC firmware?
- Or SD HxC Floppy Emulator REV F?

From what I understand, Gotek is best as:
- it supports USB pen drives instead of SD Cards (no SD Card adapter required when writing disk images from PC)
- direct ADF usage without conversion to HFE
- it is cheaper

I may also occasionally use that floppy emulator on Atari ST.

Is there any advantage of the SD HxC over Gotek + HxC?

AW99
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Re: Which hardware: Gotek or SD HxC Floppy Emulator REV F ?

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BlankVector wrote:Is there any advantage of the SD HxC over Gotek + HxC?
Sure. Here are some of the advantages:

- it supports two drives (DF0 + DF1) at the same time and many games supports more than one drive. this means you dont have to change diskimage as often as you must do it with a Gotek

- it comes with a display that shows lots of things (like (a) name of the diskimag (b) track (c) diskside (d) read- or write-mode and so on ... )

- it looks and feels much more valuable

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