[geeks] Why can't I find large-capacity replacement/upgrade IDE laptop drives?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, John Francini wrote:

> I was doing some shopping, both on-line and physical, looking for IDE
> laptop hard drives with capacity significantly greater than 160 GB.

Western Digital has the WD2500BEVE, which is a 250GB ATA 2.5" disk.
I've not been able to find anything larger.

If you're a Seagate fan, you're stuck at 160GB.  They seem to assume
that anyone who needs anything larger has moved on to SATA.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Elgin, TX
USA