Seagate to drop IDE in favor of SATA

[mzkhadir]

ArsTechnica

 

[eplebnista]

Interesting news.

 

[Zepper]

I wish they'd come up with a lot stronger SATA connectors before doing that!!! Where ruggedness is a requirement, I still use PATA.

.bh.

 

[JBT]

Suprise? I think not...

 

[alevasseur14]

JBT is right. This really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

I could bore you with the benefits of SATA but everyone pretty much already knows them.

 

[rise]

like JBT said, this is no surprise. sorry Bill, you gotta move on

 

[Bateluer]

I may be wrong about this, but IDE is a common technology to PATA and SATA drives, merely referring to the controller on the drive itself. PATA and SATA refer to the interface used to connect the drive to the motherboard.

Shouldn't the article say they are discontinuing PATA, not IDE?

 

[AmberClad]

Many motherboards nowadays only have 1 IDE slot anyways, with many more SATA slots, so considering the motherboard makers are phasing out IDE too, not surprising. Besides, I'm sure there's more than enough IDE drives sitting in warehouses, in store stocks, etc to last a few years.

 

[JackBurton]

I need to buy a few PATA 500GB drives before they're ll gone.