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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."

6 of 566 comments (clear)

  1. You'd think they'd know better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dropping hard drives can really damage them.

  2. 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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  3. 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.
  4. 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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  5. Re:well, shit. by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    can I get a hand?

    0 . ^ .0 0
    0.l l l l0 0
    l l l l 1/^0
    0\ . . . ./0
    0 \ . . ./0
     
    000101010000
    011010101000
    101010101110
    0 10000000010
    001000000100
    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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  6. 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.