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Re: Support for disks over 128GB in new 4xEIDE'99 buffe
« on: July 31, 2007, 01:21:44 AM »
BTW HDD manufacturers are dropping PATA drives soon (Seagate is said to do so by the end of the year). While stocks will last for some time, and surely some manufacturers will run small batches of the PATA drives, it will soon become increasingly hard to find them. Eventually the prices will start to climb, too.

So in case you're going to buy a PATA HDD (for example amiga use), keep an eye of the availability and prices, and don't wait too long.
 

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Re: Support for disks over 128GB in new 4xEIDE'99 buffe
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2007, 07:45:24 AM »
Converter will work I guess. It adds to the price however (quick googling revealed prices around 20+ usd), and you need one converter per drive.
 

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Re: Support for disks over 128GB in new 4xEIDE'99 buffe
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2007, 05:35:50 PM »
While at eBay, you could aswell get PATA drives from there :-)

For some reason I've never trusted second-hand stuff for storage purposes...
 

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Re: Support for disks over 128GB in new 4xEIDE'99 buffe
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2007, 09:09:22 PM »
@mongo

That sounds better.