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Is PATA going anytime soon?

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rahavsmt

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Sorry if this been asked before but i have gone through 20 pages and still could not find an answer. I thinking about buying a new HD and my mobo supports both SATA and PATA but i would like my to know if PATA would still be supported in 2 or 3 years time. I want to buy a 300gb HD and dont know which bersion to choose. I dont want it to go to waste if i upgrade my mobo anytime soon.
 
So just curious, what is your reason for sticking with PATA seeing as how your motherboard supports SATA and the price difference between SATA and PATA isn't all that much these days?

Hard to say how long PATA will stick around. There are still a lot of systems out there that don't support SATA, so I would imagine that boards will probably start phasing out PATA before the drive makers do. Then again, optical drives are still very strongly centered on PATA so perhaps even board makers will be hesitant to start phasing things out all too quickly. I'd say you've probably got a couple of years safety net, but that is just speculation.

As far as I can tell, there really aren't any downsides to going the SATA route, but there are potential downsides for going the PATA route, so unless you've got some specific needs I'd say go the SATA route.
 
Hmmm, i think its just that i want to know what my options are and i find that the pata drives are a little bit cheaper.
 
rahavsmt said:
Hmmm, i think its just that i want to know what my options are and i find that the pata drives are a little bit cheaper.
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Well, if worse came to worse, I imagine that even if motherboard makers decide "hey, let's phase out PATA today and see how many folks we can piss off!", you'd still be able to pick up a PCI/whatver PATA controller card on the cheap so if you decide you want to go the PATA route I don't think you are going to end up stranded. At worst you'd be out a couple of extra bucks for a controller card. My memory is hazy, anybody happen to recall how long it took them to phase out ISA once PCI hit the market?:D
 
MonkeyBoy said:
Well, if worse came to worse, I imagine that even if motherboard makers decide "hey, let's phase out PATA today and see how many folks we can piss off!", you'd still be able to pick up a PCI/whatver PATA controller card on the cheap so if you decide you want to go the PATA route I don't think you are going to end up stranded. At worst you'd be out a couple of extra bucks for a controller card. My memory is hazy, anybody happen to recall how long it took them to phase out ISA once PCI hit the market?:D
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ISA actually hung on for a number of years; in fact it caused huge arguments when they started phasing it out. Seems for the most part people hate change.

How about, how long will PCI last as we see PCI express being phased in?

I sure haven’t seen any massive drop in production of PATA drives in my shopping. I think your safe for a while, at least the life of the drive ;)
 
MonkeyBoy said:
My memory is hazy, anybody happen to recall how long it took them to phase out ISA once PCI hit the market?:D
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Considering that you can still get boards with ISA slots, I'd say that it's still an ongoing process.

Especially in factories (process control) and similar, ISA is still quite a common sight. Don't fix what isn't broken, I guess :)

I'd say that it'll take well over six years for PCI to be replaced in most market segments by PCIe. PATA by SATA will probably go a lot faster, as HDDs become less valuable over time (an ISA soundcard still works the same as it did in 1994, a HDD bought around that time is virtually worthless due to the relatively small storage space). Say about 3-4 years for PATA at most.
 
MonkeyBoy said:
My memory is hazy, anybody happen to recall how long it took them to phase out ISA once PCI hit the market?:D
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I remember having a T bird AXIA 1Ghz@1333 with a single ISA slot in the mobo...
 
LadyJaqie said:
I remember having a T bird AXIA 1Ghz@1333 with a single ISA slot in the mobo...
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I remeber those too. I had to have somewhere to plug in my AWE Gold sound card ;)
 
No matter if they get phased out, there are adapters, generally refered to as Serillel that allow you to run PATA on SATA.
 
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