Where have all the hard drives gone?
(sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?")
Last couple of days I've been looking for large 3.5" PATA hard drives, and they're either out of stock or simply not listed. A few weeks back you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a sale on a 500-750GB EIDE and now everything is serial. Did the big three (Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi) stop manufacturing them and the sales were just blowing out the available inventory?
I realize that SATA drives are the wave of the future, and serial adapter cards are plentiful, but the computers I'm working with are short of PCI slots, have no PCIe slots, and hanging a hard drive off the PCI buss isn't exactly what I want to do anyways.
So has anyone heard any news that would account for this shortage / disappearance?