At 11/29/2012 06:16 PM, James H. E. Maugham wrote: >> If you have use for IDE disks for laptops, you may want to get spares >soon. I am >> hearing, from several friends I trust, that IDE disk manufacture is >ramping down. >> In comparison $138 would get you a 1T sata disk. > >[James H. E. Maugham] I haven't seen any recent inability to purchase 2.5" >PATA HDs from most sources. Amazon is currently selling a Western Digital >Scorpio Blue 500 GB for $69.99, or a WD Scorpio Blue 640 GB for the same >price.
Those are both SATA models. The biggest 2.5" PATA (EIDE) anyone made was 320gb. - TK _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
