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."

Comments

Re:Does it really matter?

[Mikachu]

Excuse me, but my primary computer is still an Athlon XP 2600+, with only IDE slots. I'd have to install a PCI card, which I could do, but I'd prefer not to go out and buy one. It's not unexpected that they would discontinue the manufacturing of IDE drives; I've thought the master and slave system felt outdated since I first learned about it at the age of 6 (I'm 16, give me a break). My point, though, is that IDE is far from dead. For some people, it does matter.

Also, you can get RAID compatibility with PATA. I have a board that has it onboard.

Re:Oh fuck.

[Aranykai]

You can then buy a non-seagate(read: crappy) hard disk from any other manufacturers.

I honestly think this is a good move. I mean, if you cant get an Parallel ATA Disk anymore, just get a SATA controller. You can keep your computer, fanless or otherwise.

buy a

[ArchieBunker]

fucking $20 SATA card