2.5" IDE Hard drive supply problem

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Sl33py

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Hi
Is the rest of the county also battling to find IDE 2.5" hard drives.
Apparently they are not making them anymore??
If I can find a drive its R750 for a 160GB :wtf:
 
Sl33py said:
Hi
Is the rest of the county also battling to find IDE 2.5" hard drives.
Apparently they are not making them anymore??
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Bollocks, how do they put them in new notebooks then?

Maybe you are referring to IDE drives with a PATA interface vs SATA?
 
Yes, there's also a problem with supply of Model-T Fords. Jeesh...they go for about a million dollars.
What's up with that ? Might be a related problem.....:whistle:
 
The rest of the country is just fine, we all realise it's 2010 and have moved onto SATA! If you want to live in the past, like I do, you need to stock up on your essentials. IDE drives, floppy drives (and motherboards with suitable controllers), ISA add-on cards, parallel port printers, etc. Grab those last few 2.5" IDE drives while stocks last, cause once they're sold, you're stuck.
 
ponder said:
Bollocks, how do they put them in new notebooks then?

Maybe you are referring to IDE drives with a PATA interface vs SATA?
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2.5" IDE Hard drive supply problem otherwise I would have said SATA

What about laptops that still run on them you going to toss away a perfeclty good working laptop beacause the hard drive failed??
 
ponder said:
Bollocks, how do they put them in new notebooks then?

Maybe you are referring to IDE drives with a PATA interface vs SATA?
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You dont get IDE drives with a SATA interface.

From Wiki
"Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (P-ATA, also called IDE or EIDE), Serial ATA (SATA)..."

Peace!
 
Sl33py said:
2.5" IDE Hard drive supply problem otherwise I would have said SATA

What about laptops that still run on them you going to toss away a perfeclty good working laptop beacause the hard drive failed??
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boot from usb flash disk/usb hdd?
 
Ry4n said:
You dont get IDE drives with a SATA interface.

From Wiki
"Hard disk drives are accessed over one of a number of bus types, including parallel ATA (P-ATA, also called IDE or EIDE), Serial ATA (SATA)..."

Peace!
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Also from Wiki

Current terminology

The terms "integrated drive electronics" (IDE), "enhanced IDE" and "EIDE" have come to be used interchangeably with ATA (now Parallel ATA, or PATA). However the terms "IDE" and "EIDE" are at best imprecise. Every ATA drive is an "integrated drive electronics" drive, but SCSI drives could also legitimately be described as having "integrated drive electronics". However the abbreviation IDE is rarely, if ever, used for SCSI drives.
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Ponder was being pedantic, which is why I called him a smartass, but he was right. All modern drives are IDE drives. They don't use the obsolite IDE interface, but neither does the PATA drive the OP was referring to (it uses a newer version of ATA).
 
Hi Guyz

I got 2x 2.5'' SATA 160GB 7200rpm drives i'm wanting to sell or swop for a 1TB WD 3.5'' drive. If you interested you can send me a pm. Oh i'm in the Cape
 
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