How long till SATA 8x Burners?

[Luthien]

I already know about the 12x Plextor with SATA but they are too expensive and I would prefer 8x Liteon SATA drives. No more Eide just to keep up with the new tech. Would also like SATA type floppy drive too if that will ever happen.

 

[Schadenfroh]

what i need is a SATA, black, dual layer drive

 

[UnTech]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
what i need is a SATA, black, dual layer drive

Me too.

 

[EeyoreX]

Would also like SATA type floppy drive too if that will ever happen.

LOL, this has got to be one of the best hardware requests I have ever seen. No, seriously... Despite the floppy's continued usefullness in this day and age, it is an old and dying format. If you want an easy to connect "floppy" get a USB thumb drive. Thanks for the laugh 😉

As for SATA optical drives, that remains to be seen. If they start at 12x like the Plextor, they may not "back manufacture" slower drives. That would only canibalize their sales of the more expensive 12x drives. Again, assuming each manufacturer starts at 12x and assuming I am right. Bottom line, no one other than the manufacturers knows when/if.

\Dan

 

[batmanuel]

It might be hard to kickstart the trend anyway, a lot of the onboard SATA controllers I've seen integrated into motherboards have mostly been two channel RAID controllers. Most DVD burners are only ATA33 anyway, so there would be little performance advantage to adding SATA interfaces (plus if you bridge the SATA chip to a PATA controller like most manufacturers would likely do, you might even lose a bit of performance in the bridging).

I'd say we'll eventually see a lot more SATA burners, but I bet it won't be a widespread thing until Intel starts shipping motherboards without PATA connectors. I'm having a hard enough time finding cheap native SATA hard drives right now, more than a year and a half after my motherboard with onboard SATA RAID first hit the streets, so I'm not holding my breath for widespread adoption of SATA burners in the near future.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: UnTech

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
what i need is a SATA, black, dual layer drive

Me too.

Can't help with the SATA dual-layer bit, but the black I certainly can 😀

(Spent an hour or so this afternoon spray-painting various bits & pieces, looks pretty damned good)

 

[EeyoreX]

I'd say we'll eventually see a lot more SATA burners, but I bet it won't be a widespread thing until Intel starts shipping motherboards without PATA connectors. I'm having a hard enough time finding cheap native SATA hard drives right now, more than a year and a half after my motherboard with onboard SATA RAID first hit the streets, so I'm not holding my breath for widespread adoption of SATA burners in the near future.

Personally, I feel that is the catch 22 of the situation. Intel/motherboard manufacturers may feel they should wait until SATA drives are more readily available, while the drive manufacturers probably feel they need to wait until more motherboards support more SATA devices. Either way, I feel SATA optical drives will begin appearing in larger numbers by this years holiday season, at the latest.

\Dan

 

[Nocturnal]

Plextor announced one coming out in May. It's 12x DVD+R and 8x DVD-R.

 

[Sid59]

plexie is gonna come with an SATA DVD Burner.

Will mobos only support 4 SATA devices? Or are there gonan be more?

 

[EeyoreX]

plexie is gonna come with an SATA DVD Burner.

Will mobos only support 4 SATA devices? Or are there gonan be more?

The OP knows about the Plextor but wanted something else.

Also, there will be more than 4 SATA channels on future motherboards. Especially with SATA II supporting more than one device per channel, that will allow for more devices than the current 1 device per channel. We won't need to worry about not having enough channels for all our SATA goodies. I mean, if you are reasonable. 😉

\Dan

 

[Lyfer]

I dont see the advantages of SATA over EIDE other than no need for jumpering and 150MBPS vs ATA133.

 

[UnTech]

I like SATA cables better than IDE cables

 

[SickBeast]

hot-swappable, and smaller cables. also there are many scsi-like features in the newer sata controller cards, such as command-queing.

 

[50]

Would also like SATA type floppy drive too if that will ever happen.

HAHA...the thread had so much potential until that.
A bit OT but I would like to see a drive format that could be as easy as the floppy yet much more capacity. Sure we have CD's but it's much more complicated to copy a file onto those as opposed to copying them onto floppy drives.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

MSI will have the first one in a couple weeks.

Kristopher

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: 50

Would also like SATA type floppy drive too if that will ever happen.

HAHA...the thread had so much potential until that.
A bit OT but I would like to see a drive format that could be as easy as the floppy yet much more capacity. Sure we have CD's but it's much more complicated to copy a file onto those as opposed to copying them onto floppy drives.

Like EeyoreX said, that's exactly what they made USB flash drives are for. So long as you have a reasonably new computer and OS (i.e. not Win98) you just plug them and start dragging and dropping files. And for personal backups you can also format a CD-RW or DVD+/-RW to work just like a floppy if you use a packet writing application like Roxio's Drag-to-Disk or InCD. Right now I've got a DVD+RW formatted for packet writing that I'm using to back up my critical data and it is as easy to use as a floppy.

Right now floppies are really only good for installing RAID controller drivers and BIOS flashes (and BIOS flashes inside of Windows work pretty well nowadays, so the latter use is diminishing). I won't have any tears to shed when the floppy connector disapears from new motherboards one of these days.