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IDE Vs SATA

It should be even easier than a PATA burner. Hook up power and data cables and that's it - no jumpers to mess with.

.bh.
 
While I've read a lot of mixed reviews of SATA optical drives, the Samsung I have now works perfectly ... not that the drive is any faster, but it is nice to eliminate IDE cables completely.
 
Using an SATA DVD burner here in work and I keep meaning to get one for home so I can toss my second PATA hard drive back in and get rid of my old, slow, PATA burner. No complaints here yet and as usual for SATA the connections and simple and cabling tidy.
 
Most burners have the standard power connector too. And be sure your SATA controller is compatible with ATAPI drives. All SATA 2 controllers are supposed to be but it's iffy with a number of SATA 1 controllers.

.bh.
 
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