Shortly IDE connected HDD will disappear from the market

It has been widely used as a form to connect HDDs "IDEHowever, at last the following connection form "Serial ATA (S-ATA)It seems that the day that it is totally replaced by 'is approaching.

Already the world's largest HDD maker including Seagate is headed for cutting off the supply of new models of IDE connected HDD.

Details are as follows.
The Tech Report - Seagate to give up on IDE

According to this article, Seagate, the world's largest HDD manufacturer, said that it is said that distribution personnel are talking about starting to abolish IDE compatible HDD in stages from this year. And this year it will only offer HDDs compatible with S-ATA.

Note that Seagate is not the first manufacturer to not offer IDE HDDs, but Western Digital has already phased out the IDE connection model mainly in high-speed and large capacity HDDs.

In other words, will it be close to the day when manufacturers such as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and Sumsung abolish the IDE connection model ...? It may not be long before the day it will be forced to replace the PC body in order to mount a large capacity internal HDD.