End of the road for IDE drives?

seaeagle · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: End of the road for IDE drives?

Seagate: End of the road for IDE drives? - ZDNet Australia

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According to The Inquirer, sources from within the channel report Seagate as having briefed them that it's the end of the road for IDE hard drives.

It appears that Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives, also known as PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment), by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products instead.

This would hardly be surprising news, given that SATA (serial ATA) has overtaken PATA as the interface of choice for hard drive connectivity. Perhaps more importantly, SATA has become the main interface for the primary hard drive connectivity as well -- the majority of OEM system shipments now contain a SATA-based hard drive instead of a PATA one. (continues)

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Well, time marches on.....

There was also a day when Seagate stopped making MFM drives and concentrated their efforts on IDE drives. Of course, they were only 3600 rpm in those days and rated in meg's, not gig's.
I owned two Seagate ST4038, 30 meg, drives and I thought I was king of the hill. Wink

The market drives the manufacturer,,,,not the other way around.
People are demanding faster drives......SATA2 is definitely the way to go.

With new systems using 4000+ CPU's, the hard drive has become the biggest bottleneck in the system.

SATA2 Drives (3,000 megabyte per minute transfer speeds)......That's all I buy for my own PC's now. Even a SATA-1 drive, at 1,500 mbpm is slow by comparison.

Goodbye IDE.....been good to know ya!
Thanks for the memories!

Shadow Cool