I saw an article yesterday indicating that Seagate would be dropping support for the IDE interface on its Harddrives this year. The IDE or ATA interface was in common usage until Serial ATA [SATA] came out in 2004. Once SATA was released the original ATA bus started to be called Parallel ATA [PATA] because it used a parallel bus while SATA was a serial interface.
Motherboards have been shipping with headers for either interface from 2004 on to support legacy drives. However as more companies continue to stop supporting the older [slower] PATA bus these interfaces may be dropped to save money.
SATA is an interface used between a Mother Board and an internal drive bay. A variant of SATA called eSATA may be used from the Motherboard to a Hard Disk Drive [HDD] external to the PC Case.
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I was just out at Seagate's site tonight [Feb. 7 2008] and it appears they still sell a number of 3.5" ATA100 drives [Internal]. Of course Seagate also sells a number of external Hard Disk Drives but I did not check to see if this were also of the older ATA interface.
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