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

[Kelvin KAN]

To be honest, I don't quite care about the performance, especially btwn 
7200 vs 5400rpm.

I care more about my investment on the hardware of consistent/stable 
interface i.e. I prefer them to stick with PATA.

I've stocked about a total of  20 + 20  + 40  + 40 + 80  = 200GB of 
2.5"  PATA drives.  Usually when I bought a new laptop, I just swapped 
in a new drive and migrate the data on the old drives gradually to it.

To change the design from PATA to SATA is a fundamental one.  They have 
to justify the change decision i.e. gain in performance vs loss in 
compatibility.

I just don't want them to ruin my investment overnight (when I need to 
replace this not-too-old 9-month T42).


Thanks,
-
kelvin.



Aaron Mulder wrote:

>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.
>>
>>-
>>kelvin.
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