Is PLEXTOR the only company that makes a sata DVD-RW?

[Indyboy2]

msi used to make sata writers i thought?

 

[vailr]

http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/34801/

By: Oscar Meade - Published October 04, 2006 at 11:06 PM EDT - Writer Archive
Second half of '07 will bring SATA optical drives

"After years of being around, Serial ATA (SATA) is likely to finally become a mainstream interconnection technology not only for hard disk drives, but also for optical disc drives in the second half of 2007, according to a media report.

Several DVD recorders, including Sony AW-Q160S, Asustek DRW-1814BLT and DVD-E616A3T that support Serial ATA interconnection instead of advanced technology attachment packet interface (ATAPI) have already been launched. Additionally, Samsung Electronics, Pioneer, Lite-On IT and BenQ will launch Serial ATA DVD burners this quarter"

Interestingly enough, optical manufacturers have long been criticized for not jumping on the SATA bandwagon when a large portion of the hard drive market, and particularly the high-end HDD enthusiast market, has already switched to the SATA without looking back. However, you can't blame the manufacturers for not investing in a technology that will cost them a vast amount of resources. We understand many of our readers have longed for optical drives to finally sport the SATA specification, as many gamers alike will find that the only IDE cable in their computer is solely dedicated to their CD/DVD drive. It finally took costs, technology maturation, and Intel releasing chipsets without support for the ATA specification to convince manufacturers that SATA is a go.

X-bit Labs

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: bamacre
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod...tail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=313-4662

Awesome. Do you know what's the make and model of this drive?

I do not. But Dell's newer models, the Dimensions E520, E521, and 9200 (probably xps 410 as well) do not have any PATA connections, and all optical drives of course are SATA. This should actually help bring more SATA optical drives to the market and lower prices on them as well.

Edit: Just popped open an E521, the SATA DVDRW drive in it is a Toshiba/Samsung Model TS-H553.

 

[Bateluer]

Guess I'll have to bide my time for a while . . .