SATA optical drive or IDE?

[Ethereal]

Here is the problem.

I currently don't even own a DVD burner at the moment. My motherboard does not support SATA either. It's important to note that I will be transfering new mobo, RAM, graphics card, PSU and the DVDrw drive into my current case for the time being.

I am building a new rig this Friday and I'm going to pick up some parts including a DVD burner.

I will be installing Vista Ultimate on this new system and have already downloaded the ISO's to my HDD on my current pc. I have subscription to MSDN.

As I said I do not have SATA on my current mobo. I was planning on purchasing an IDE DVDrw and plug it into to my current xp system, burn the ISO and then switch out the parts. If I bought a SATA DVDrw I would not be able to do that.

I would almost need to switch out the parts and plug SATA DVDrw into new board, install xp, burn the ISO then reformat with Vista.

What I really want to know is this. Is a SATA DVDrw worth all this trouble? Or can someone possibly think of an alternate way for me to do this?

I know this is a weird situation but any help or comments on this is muchly appreciated.

 

[amdskip]

IMHO stick with the tried and true, just get an ide burner and be done with it.

 

[Kromis]

According to Tom's Hardware, theres no difference between SATA and IDE in regards to optical drives.

 

[Ethereal]

I guess I going ide then. makes my life alot easier too. I would go through the trouble if it were worth it. thanks.

 

[Synomenon]

I'd stick with an IDE optical drive just because there may be a utility you need one day that you need to boot with and if you don't have a floppy drive and the utility doesn't support SATA interface yet, you're out of luck. A good example would be the Ultimate Boot CD. It's a free CD with a number of useful tools that still don't support SATA optical drives.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Kromis
According to Tom's Hardware, theres no difference between SATA and IDE (PATA) in regards to optical drives.

They are literally the exact same drives, plus a bridge chip to change the interface to SATA. The actual drives themselves are the same as IDE (PATA); if you don't have SATA ports there's no need to get one.

 

[13Gigatons]

I got the sata and I'm very happy with it. It does everything the pata did and that thin cable is a breeze to deal with. Most new mobo detect sata like ide now so it's not a big deal.

 

[tw1164]

Get a SATA drive

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Ethereal
My motherboard does not support SATA either.

As I said I do not have SATA on my current mobo. I was planning on purchasing an IDE DVDrw and plug it into to my current xp system, burn the ISO and then switch out the parts. If I bought a SATA DVDrw I would not be able to do that.

Why does everyone keep suggesting SATA? OP won't be able to use an SATA drive in his current setup which he wants to do. If he gets a new motherboard it'll have at least one IDE (PATA) channel so he can plug an IDE drive into it if he does upgrade. It seems to me like this is a no-nonsense "get IDE" situation, no?

 

[Ethereal]

I'm getting the Gigabyde 965P DS3 board. It would support. I guess Im just going to go pata anyway.

 

[Roguestar]

The DS3 has one IDE channel and therefore you will be able to connect a maximum of 2 IDE devices to it. It's a nice board, by the way.