SATA DVD drives?

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CaptCanada

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Hi all

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but just wondering if SATA DVD drives such as burners and readers are going to appear?

I think they would benefit from going to SATA. Is it a demand issue, that is, not enough ppl
requesting SATA DVD drives, or is it that they would not be practical

Thanks
 
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C1

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Canada cant be that far away.

It actually not that easy to find IDE DvD drives now daze (as most everything is SATA)
 
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Horsepower

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Perhaps the captain means ones that actually use the sata channel rather than emulate ide?
 
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Horsepower said:
Perhaps the captain means ones that actually use the sata channel rather than emulate ide?
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I am thinking he's out of touch.

SATA optical drives are quite common now, OP. And they are much nicer to install and use than PATA. I admit I was slow with converting over but now that things are so easy I love serial. The ports are easier to use and take up much less space on the motherboard. None of that silly master/slave nonsense either. So far all my experiences with serial have been fine. And while optical drives might not see a serious speed boost from the new standard, they are at least easier to use.
 
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My new system has two SATA DVD burners - one internal and one external. They are fast approaching 2 years old. I think PATA DVD burners are not easy to find on the shelves these days.
 
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The understanding is that SATA controllers have more smarts than PATA and thus operate more like SCSI. If you go to a place like Frys Electronics you will see that most optical drives stocked are SATA. They may have only one or two PATAs available as these are now considered legacy. Finally, jhon martan is correct, this is the best way to make a copy of an optical disk even if you have two optical drives (even internal ones). It is particularly true if the drives are IDE and even more truer if they are both on the same IDE channel as IDE only allows data transfers only single channel at a time (eg, drive 1 is read then drive 2 is written, drive 1 is read then drive 2 is written, repeat, repeat, repeat, etc.; the delay often results in coasters or problematic copies).
 
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