[ltp] OT: SATA to be the standard of all 2.5" HD???

[André Wyrwa]

Kelvin KAN wrote:
> Just read that Seagate announced two large-capacity 120GB & 100GB 2.5" 
> drives respectively  ST91020821AS & ST9100821AS.
> 
> But they are all SATA interface.
> 
> Are HD vendors going to abandon ATA?
> 
> Or PC vendors going to adopt SATA in all future laptops?
> 
> Because obviously my old too old T42 is still ATA only.

It is very likely that harddrive vendors will drop PATA support sooner 
or later. I guess the now available PATA harddrives will stick around 
for a while still. There's surely still market enough for 120 GB PATA 
drives as well. But i wouldn't expect them to get much larger than that 
anymore, since newer notebooks will have SATA interfaces. That mean for 
harddrive vendors the OEM market will be SATA only soon. The consumer 
market will shift over time as well, so the interest in producing PATA 
drives will get quite low.

André.