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Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-are-finished dept.

ianare writes "Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans, though others will likely follow suit. That's not to say support for the 21-year-old PATA standard is going to vanish overnight; similar to how ISA slots were available long after most of us had ditched our old ISA peripherals."

13 of 566 comments (clear)

  1. Gone missing? by Burdell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. I didn't know Slashdot was stored on IDE drives!
  2. You'd think they'd know better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dropping hard drives can really damage them.

  3. Re:Does it really matter? by jimbug · · Score: 5, Funny

    does this mean if I use IDE I can grow a beard now?

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  4. PATA won a ribbon cable by leek · · Score: 4, Funny
    Seagate SATA long time on this.


    They're a bunch of SASies.

    PC Joe won't understand SCSI isn't old enough.

  5. It's a bad idea by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hardware: Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End

    They don't work so well after dropping them. I, for one, will not buy one of these dropped drives at any price.

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    rediculous.
  6. Re:but the motherboards! by lpontiac · · Score: 4, Funny

    USB keyboards require special drivers

    Did you miss the Microsoft to Drop Windows 95 by Year End article back in 2001? :)

  7. well, shit. by thegnu · · Score: 4, Funny

    shit. can I get a hand? what the hell are you all doing sitting around letting me make myself look stupid?

    bastards.

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    1. Re:well, shit. by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny

      can I get a hand?

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      000101010000
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      There ya go. Pretty easy, once you get through the blasted lameness filter. I'd use lorem ipsum, but I don't Slashdotters would appreciate it much. So far, in the time it's taken me to get this past the lameness filter, your post went from a "2 Funny" to a "3 Funny". I wonder how many other people are attempting to craft a response as well. Let's see if using 'l's will get me past the "Too many junk characters" filter. Yup. Now I see that Slashdot doesn't support <pre>, and <tt> is broken. How about <ecode<? Nope. Gotta find something for those spaces. Ah! How about alternating periods and asterisks for a dark background? Ah! Too many junk characters again. Let's alternate the asterisks with spaces. Nope...Replacing the asterisks with zeros works, but now you can't really see the hand. Ah, heck. Let's make a 0/1 bitmap. That's funny...it added a space in the middle of one of the (short!) lines. Let's append spaces to each line...Didn't work. Ah hell, now your post is at "4 Funny". I'll leave both hands up.

      Long story short, don't bother with the ascii art.
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  8. Re:PS2 keyboards by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can have my Model M keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead fingers....

    Your proposal is acceptable.

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  9. Re:PS2 keyboards by British · · Score: 4, Funny

    The PS/2 ports are to make it so you can accidentally put the mouse in the keyboard port, and the keyboard in the mouse port(wow, great design there guys).

    Having USB ports for the mouse & keyboard would take the fun out of that!

    Huh, the numlock light is on, but nothing's working.

  10. Re:Oh fuck. by networkzombie · · Score: 4, Funny

    What will I do when my drive dies again?

    Well, you shouldn't have bought Maxtor drives to begin with.

  11. Re:PS2 keyboards by dotgain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having USB ports for the mouse & keyboard would take the fun out of that!
    Don't worry, the speed at which WinXP handles booting up with the mouse and keyboard in different ports than last time more than makes up for that.
  12. Re:PS2 keyboards by pomerol · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a very old Fujitsu keyboard with excellent key layout and feel. It has an AT connector which I now plug into an AT-to-PS2 adapter which plugs into a PS2-to-USB adapter which finally plugs into my new Shuttle XPC that does not have a PS2 port. The absence of legacy ports on the Shuttle was one of the many reasons I bought it.

    I expect that someone will have to pry my old Fujitsu keyboard from my cold dead fingers, and by then the list of adapters will be longer.

    And finally, yes, all my storage devices in the Shuttle use SATA connectors.