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07-26-2007, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 12,158
|  Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
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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 as SATA continues to sap PATA's market share. According to a report published at Australian-based ITNews last January, SATA now accounts for 66.7 percent of desktop hard drive sales, 44 percent of laptop sales, and an unspecified (but increasing) amount of enterprise storage connectivity.
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07-26-2007, 10:37 PM
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Formerly Beefcake Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Ohio, United States Posts: 1,942
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
I knew the end of IDE drives would be soon. IDE drives will blow over fast I think, people who use IDE drives already have theirs and there will still be plenty of IDE drives floating around online for the next couple years.
It won't be like AGP which took forever to kill, but that was understandable. No one wants to have to upgrade other hardware so they can get a faster GPU
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07-27-2007, 12:32 AM
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MetalHead Techie Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,889
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
i figured this would happen to
is DDR ram still being manufactured?
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07-27-2007, 01:18 AM
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| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
Well it's a bold move, but I think it needs to be done
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07-27-2007, 02:01 AM
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disgruntled ex-moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: probably on the lake Posts: 6,857
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
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Originally Posted by Invisible  i figured this would happen to
is DDR ram still being manufactured? | um, yeah...tons of it.
the funny thing is..it costs more than ddr2.
the funnier thing is...it is better than ddr2.
lol i wish my am2 cpus worked with ddr.
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07-27-2007, 01:02 PM
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| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
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Originally Posted by nagasama the funnier thing is...it is better than ddr2. | Tell that to the Sissoft Sandra memory benches on AM2 systems.
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07-27-2007, 01:45 PM
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Monster Techie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NW. w00t. Posts: 1,148
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
About time is right. I can't remember the last rig I built and used IDE.
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07-27-2007, 02:23 PM
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disgruntled ex-moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: probably on the lake Posts: 6,857
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
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Originally Posted by Apokalipse Tell that to the Sissoft Sandra memory benches on AM2 systems. | true...but high frequency vs low latency...by "better" i meant the overall latency of the ram.
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07-27-2007, 02:33 PM
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| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
its about time???
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07-27-2007, 11:53 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 13,729
| Re: Seagate to cut off IDE drives, by the end of the year
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Originally Posted by nagasama true...but high frequency vs low latency...by "better" i meant the overall latency of the ram. | 4 clock cycles at 400MHZ (ddr2-800) is the same wait as 2 clock cycles at 200MHZ (DDR400)
there are twice as many clock cycles, but the clock cycles go by twice as fast.
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