I like to move a lot of my games, many of which I own on disk, over to my compact flash 4GB HDD. That way my original disks can stay in their boxes and go into storage. Plus, it's way faster to play games off the HDD (duh). But some games, especially the early ones that came out before 1989, didn't come with hard drive installation options. Every now and then you may find one, but a lot didn't.
The good news is that the vast majority of really early games were only on a single disk. Games that had really large stacks of disks were more of an anomaly found during the birth of the CD-ROM days, when publishers still wanted to cater to the Amiga with the understanding that most users only had floppy drives.
When it came to RPGs, games with a single disk (e.g. Bard's Tale) always needed a second disk for saving character data. Long story short, I love Bard's Tale and playing it on disk is 1/2 of the experience. But damn, the disk swapping can be a real drag sometimes. So, I plunked down and got an original Commodore Amiga external floppy.
The thing looks like an Apple drive, to be honest, with its large front enclosure and rainbow logo. The drive's sound is something to behold, too. It's far quieter and deeper, if that makes sense, than the side-loading df0. The drive was well cleaned and oiled (frankly, too well-oiled). The first blank I put in there came out with some mineral oil on the blue plastic I had to wipe away.
In a case like Bard's Tale, the game can now load in df0, and seek the character data in df1, as smooth as silk. It's a bit silly, but I love this setup for my RPGs now. When you go to Workbench and have no disks inserted, it's kind of hilarious listening to the two drives sing in chorus (in stereo!) every other second, as Amiga drives do when they are perpetually seeking an inserted floppy.
Totally nerdy, but I love it! It's freaking awesome. Check out the setup below.