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

[James Knott]

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.

I could be wrong, but I believe drives passed the maximum ATA size a
while ago, which means anything larger than that limit has to be SATA.