Western Digital external drives have DRM can't play Impulse Tracker files!!

[Trev]

@pyrre

ATA/133 was a proprietary stopgap technology developed by Maxtor, which Seagate now owns. Everyone else moved to SATA.

@all

Yet another example of the entertainment industry wanting to control access to media. They pressure technology companies into releasing stupid products that infringe upon consumer rights, and it has nothing to do with copyrights or protecting intellectual property. It's all about creating monopolies, which is, of course, the goal of every successful business. They just hide it behind terms like "market share" and "market penetration."

[Trev]

Drives are drives these days. In the desktop market, it's Hitachi, Seagate, or Western Digital, and all are comparably priced with similar warranties and performance charactersitics. It's only silly stuff like this file sharing limitation that separates one vendor from the next.

And what's with all the "SCSI's dead" talk I keep seeing on Amiga and Apple sites? Seriously, SATA is still playing catch up to features SCSI has had for years. (We'll stay aware from FC and other options for the moment.) Primarily though, I think the differences are akin to what Intel, AMD, and others do with chips. The good parts go in the SCSI drives, and the good-enough parts go in the ATA drives.

Trev