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

[Aaron Mulder]

For what it's worth, there are two 100GB 7200 RPM laptop PATA drives
on the market -- Seagate's Momentus 7200.1 and Hitachi's 7K100.  Both
come in SATA and PATA varieties (and the Hitachi comes in smaller
sizes too).  It looks like they're $300+.(There's also a 120GB 5400
RPM Seagate Momentus 5400.2 model).

I put a Hitachi 7200 100GB in my T42p and the hdparm performance is a
bit better than the 60GB/7200RPM drive it replaced, but the real-world
performance doesn't seem substantially better.  It also seems a little
louder.  But hey, 100GB/7200 is nothing to shake a stick at.  :)

Aaron

On 10/6/05, Kelvin KAN <kelvin@sgi.com> 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.
>
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