Compromise

I saw that Seagate has announced it will no longer make IDE (PATA) drives after this year.  It’s the first, but others are expected to follow.  Whoosh!

I’m still stuck on my first impression of SATA, from setting up a server with SATA RAID.  It was slow and the machine never worked right.  Despite its recentness, my successor is trying to retire that particular server as soon as it can possibly be arranged.  I concurred vigorously when we talked about it.

Apparently I’m stuck in the past, and SATA has been one of the fastest adopted new standards ever.

That reminded me of the problem with my new machine, lacking adequate IDE connectors on the motherboard.  I couldn’t order the $96, 500 GB SATA drive, so I figured I was stuck.  I decided to see what was there at smaller sizes that could be purchased with available PayPal funds.

Thus I have a 200 GB SATA drive on the way for $44.50, plus a couple USB keyboard for $3.50 each.  If I don’t get around to trying the setup until they arrive, great, there’s my keyboard solved too.  Otherwise it’s the same plan to test install with IDE and not activate it, and I’ll have inexpensive spare keyboards.  That and a spare 200 GB IDE drive to use in something.

Yay!

Posted by on 07/25 at 03:56 PM

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