Re: why only 1 IDE on new motherboards?
- From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:47:06 -0600
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<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While that's true, at this point it's way premature to be forcing people
to SATA. The installed base of IDE devices is huge, and still many
orders of magnitude greater than SATA.
While true, they are obviously more interested in pursuing the market of
people who buy modern equipment.
There are absolutely no native PATA drives available for purchase
anymore, the best you can find is a SATA drive with an onboard SATA/PATA
conversion chip and a PATA interface.
It's the same stupid "logic" that is causing motherboard manufacturers
to put a grand total of two (and in some cases, ONE) standard PCI
slot on their boards. Utterly useless for everyone I know, but some
people must be buying them.
I have more PCI slots, but I don't use any of them. I took a rough poll
amongst my friends and family when I saw your post, I found one capture
card, and one modem, and that's it -- Beyond that, I can't find anyone
that uses a PCI card for any function that isn't already included on my
motherboard anyway.
.
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