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images/news/hardware.jpgSeagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans, though others will likely follow suit as SATA continues to sap PATA's market share. According to a report published at Australian-based ITNews last January, SATA now accounts for 66.7 percent of desktop hard drive sales, 44 percent of laptop sales, and an unspecified (but increasing) amount of enterprise storage connectivity.

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According to a report published at Australian-based ITNews last January, SATA now accounts for 66.7 percent of desktop hard drive sales, 44 percent of laptop sales, and an unspecified (but increasing) amount of enterprise storage connectivity.

32.3% of desktop hard drive sales, 56% of laptop sales and an unspecified (but decreasing) amount of enterprise storage connectivity is still too much. I dont think its time to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives... and what about owners of old machines that may want some extra storage ?

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vrosa x64, on Jul 26 2007, 07:30 PM, said:

32.3% of desktop hard drive sales, 56% of laptop sales and an unspecified (but decreasing) amount of enterprise storage connectivity is still too much. I dont think its time to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives... and what about owners of old machines that may want some extra storage ?

Exactly what I was thinking-

Also, even though the demand is shrinking, I have to question the wisdom of abandoning about a third of the market. Even if it only accounted for 10% of its sales you shouldn't turn your back on it.