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Seagate (that's the company that bought over Maxtor) plans to kill off the PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive, or also known as the IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive, in favor of the Serial ATA hard drive.

With optical drive these days moving to SATA as well, it's probably time to junk out PATA drives so boards of the future will only have the smaller (and more) SATA ports than maintaining the legacy larger (and few) PATA ports. After all, there seems no benefit to retain the PATA drives when SATA is clearly the easier, neater, and better option.  No more issues about master and slave jumpers - or messy interior casing.

Seagate plans to halt PATA drive production by year end, so you might see the other manufacturers follow suit as well. Time to get your PATA drives now while they last!

Source : Ars Technica