Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End 566
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."
Gone missing? (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think they'd know better (Score:5, Funny)
what? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh fuck. (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Does it really matter? (Score:5, Funny)
PATA won a ribbon cable (Score:5, Funny)
They're a bunch of SASies.
PC Joe won't understand SCSI isn't old enough.
What's next??? (Score:2, Funny)
ISA is dead? (Score:2, Funny)
It's a bad idea (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.
Re:but the motherboards! (Score:5, Funny)
Did you miss the Microsoft to Drop Windows 95 by Year End article back in 2001? :)
PS2 keyboards (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You'd think they'd know better (Score:3, Funny)
Oh boy. I'll probably hate myself for this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You'd think they'd know better (Score:4, Funny)
and employees get six. <---joke
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well, shit. (Score:5, Funny)
bastards.
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:5, Funny)
Your proposal is acceptable.
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:5, Funny)
Having USB ports for the mouse & keyboard would take the fun out of that!
Huh, the numlock light is on, but nothing's working.
Re:Oh fuck. (Score:4, Funny)
Well, you shouldn't have bought Maxtor drives to begin with.
Re:well, shit. (Score:5, Funny)
Long story short, don't bother with the ascii art.
PC fanboys please read (Score:0, Funny)
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:5, Funny)
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:1, Funny)
Obligigatory Simpson's quote: (Score:2, Funny)
Now you're bitchin' 'cause you have yer cute lil' cube, Macboy?
LOL!
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:4, Funny)
Re:PS2 keyboards (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.
Re:What about osdev? (Score:1, Funny)
pubes.
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:2, Funny)
Re:PS2 keyboards (Score:3, Funny)