SATA Optical Drives

[imported_x1]

Do you guys know of any alternative to this, either out now or coming soon?

If you don't want to click the link its a MSI SATA combo drive w/ 16x DVD and 52x/24x/52x CD-RW. I need to rid my system of icky IDE.

The problem with this drive is:

Supports only Intel 875P / 865PE / 865G / 865GV / 865P / 848P Chipset motherboard
Do not support SATA controller cards

Which is no good for me since I want to move to Alderwood when its out. I do imagine there will be a firmware update, but would rather get a more compatible drive. I also would prefer a better brand than MSI like a Lite-On or something. I've only heard minor complaints about SATA controller incompatibility with HDs, I wonder what the problem is with optical drives.

 

[Dahak]

Well if you are planning on moving to the alderwood, there is 1 pata connector available for optical drives.
Also as far as im aware of for sata optical drives, there is the msi one that you linked to, and aslo a dvd burner from plextor, havent really heard anything else yet... but who knows they may pick up quickly once the i915/i925 (grandsdale/alderwood) is released

 

[AristoV300]

I am sure we will see more optical SATA drives once the new chipsets are released. I know right now the 875P has only one pair of native SATA.

 

[Bar81]

Unfortunately there are no native SATA DVDRW chipsets atm so it looks like even the new SATA opticals will be SATA only through a bridge chip and not natively.

 

[mechBgon]

I find it interesting that the OP is wanting to rid his system of icky IDE and yet probably wants one or more 74GB WD Raptor, which is an IDE drive with a bridge chip Or are you looking to switch to SCSI, x1? What's wrong with PATA, anyway?

 

[Hans5849]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
I am sure we will see more optical SATA drives once the new chipsets are released. I know right now the 875P has only one pair of native SATA.

i have a gigabyte 8knxp that has 2 pairs of SATA

 

[AristoV300]

My p4c800-e has 2 also, but only 1 set is native. The other works via PCI controller. I may be wrong but I think current AMD board don't have any native SATA??

 

[Tostada]

Many AMD boards have native SATA.

The nForce3 250 chipset has built-in SATA. Previous nVidia chipsets don't.

The VIA KT600 has built-in SATA. Previous VIA chipsets don't.

 

[AndyHui]

Plextor is offering their new 712AS 12x DVDRW in the SATA format.

 

[imported_x1]

I dislike the cables for pata, but its alot more compatible, and mechBgon is right about the bridging to SATA. Mostly I just wan't to get rid of all old stuff, my next board will hopefully not have serial and parallel (like some abits) and will have pci-e instead of agp. Maybe they'll get rid of ps/2 and floppy connector too. The only problem is booting to DOS to update bios. It's more about the interface/standards for me then anything else. SATA isn't killing in performance and neither will PCI-E, but their they wave of the future (till sata2 and pci-e 32x or whatever)