Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End

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."

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[bladesjester]

I hadn't bought a WD drive in years because I had some trouble with a few where I used to work (we got a really bad batch). However, a couple of months ago, I decided that my laptop's drive (40GB split 30/10 between windows and linux) was too small for all of the things I want to use it for, so I got one of WD's 320GB external drives.

I have to say that I'm impressed. It's pretty quiet, has adequate air flow, and more than responsive enough for a storage drive.

It feels nice to have real drive space again as well. In fact, I've spent the last several weeks ripping my cd collection so I can listen to it at my desk without digging through discs.