Monday, December 23rd 2013
Western Digital to Stop Shipping PATA Hard Drives
Western Digital is expected to end shipments of parallel-ATA (PATA or legacy ATA) hard drives from December 29, 2013. The company maintained a small lineup of PATA hard drives in its product stack, to cater to people with older laptops looking for hard drive upgrades, and whoever else may be using the old standard that was blasted into obsolescence exactly a decade ago, with the introduction of SATA and AHCI. Product discontinuation notifications (PDNs) for the company's last Caviar PATA hard drives, bearing model numbers WD800AAJB (80 GB), WD1600AAJB (160 GB), WD2500AAJB (250 GB), WD3200AAJB (320 GB), WD4000AAJB (400 GB), and WD5000AAJB (500 GB) were issued this may, soliciting the last orders from OEMs and distributors. The last of those orders will be fulfilled by the 29th, when the drives will enter end-of-life (EOL) state. The company will only honor active warranties from then on.
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29 Comments on Western Digital to Stop Shipping PATA Hard Drives
Maybe just 2-3GB for OS, few hundreds MB for production softwares and 1-2GB for AAA games. Compared to now that win8 64 ask for 20GB, 2.5GB for Photoshop CC, and 30GB+ for Battlefield 4.
I will say, however, that I've had some old IDE drives in a RAID array and they weren't bad. Today's standards are pretty high (especially with SSDs being popular and cheap now), but those old IDE drives don't do too bad.
AGP, floppy drives, CRTs, PCI (not Express), and now PATA.... what's left from the 1990s that's due up on the chopping block?
And try to get SATA power male! I am dealing with manufacturers ATM, if it will go well, I will be maybe the only person in Europe having standalone male power connector solderable to cable…
Anyway, I wonder why nobody ever made UATA drive bigger than 500 GB. No wonder nobody was buying it for those bloody prices when you could get 1TB drive+PCI controller for it…
I'll miss PATA like a hole in the head but I've still got an fully functioning Seagate 545MB PATA HDD that gets booted into windows 95 OSR2 once a year just to make sure it still works I've aslo got older Quantum XL 100MB HDD on a full length 16bit ISA card which still works
new ide harddrives are still availeble with a little higher price compared to sata..
i wonder why there a such few 750GB IDE drives the 3,5" ones?
Is it possible that the manufacturer now a days just kick out super old stock with these 80GB drives?
I mean even the 320GB one in my case (2,5") was an old stock but still in production from hitachi for industrial storage.
I wouldn't mind getting a 1TB IDE drive for my older USB/IDE Bridge