Just ordered a SSD for my old 2007 Macbook 3,1 and was thinking about getting a drive caddy for the cd bay and putting my old sata drive in it. As you may or may not know, these models have PATA ...

Did I missing something? Why is it so hard to find 7200rpm PATA drives in 2.5" format. Everything is in SATA. I mean they still make 3.5" 7200rpm PATA drives. (I'm looking at you Hitachi 7k100 ...

The only thing keeping PATA drives going is the slight cost benefit, a couple of dollars per drive, compared with SATA, Clark said. “PATA is still used for cost-sensitive platforms,” ...

Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 and 400GB storage and 5400 to 7200rpm, and while unfortunately they didn't call out specific brands or models that had high ...