Serial ATA optical drives? When?

[SH3200]

Anyone have any idea when we'll get serial ATA optical drives or if any company is even developing one?
thxs in advance

 

[Nebor]

There's no point. Even hard drives don't push the transfer limits of PATA. So a CD drive certainly does not.

 

[Lonyo]

Cable sizes are smaller on SATA.
Connectors are smaller as well.

We will eventually see optical SATA drives I think, but when is another question.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Probably when SATA becomes the accepted standard. My guess would be when the second iteration of Serial ATA comes into play (the 300MB/s SATA2) sometime in 2005.

 

[MDE]

They won't change to SATA as long as we continue buying $15 AR CD-RW drives. If there's no demand, they won't be made. They know people are more likely to buy a $15 PATA optical over a $50+ SATA model.

EDIT:That said, SATA opticals can't come soon enough. These PATA cables just have to go...

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I say once the market for SATA hard drives picks up significantly (that is, OEMs start using them massively), we will see numerous SATA optical drives. Until then, optical drives will be PATA, though there may be a smaller volume company or two that starts making SATA optical drives in the near future just to get the niche market.

 

[Nebor]

As of now, sata adapters don't work on CD drives... for whatever reason.

 

[PaperclipGod]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
They won't change to SATA as long as we continue buying $15 AR CD-RW drives. If there's no demand, they won't be made. They know people are more likely to buy a $15 PATA optical over a $50+ SATA model.

EDIT:That said, SATA opticals can't come soon enough. These PATA cables just have to go...

you know you can just buy rounded cables for 50 cents, right?

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: PaperclipGod

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
They won't change to SATA as long as we continue buying $15 AR CD-RW drives. If there's no demand, they won't be made. They know people are more likely to buy a $15 PATA optical over a $50+ SATA model.

EDIT:That said, SATA opticals can't come soon enough. These PATA cables just have to go...

you know you can just buy rounded cables for 50 cents, right?

I don't want to buy el-cheapo cables, especially when they can cause errors and burn up my blank discs. Yes I know CD-Rs are cheap, but it still sucks to have a CD become useless, then have to re-burn it and hope that one works.

 

[zephyrprime]

There's no point. Even hard drives don't push the transfer limits of PATA. So a CD drive certainly does not.

There's no point as far as peformance is concerned but in the future, there's probably gonna be MB without any PATA connectors at all and then SATA optical will be a necessity. This will happen sooner than many think I bet because SATA has a lower MB footprint which means lower costs (albeit only a very little bit lower)

 

[sharkeeper]

They may come with the advent of serial attached SCSI and SATA that supports daisy chaining. That would definitely be a plus. Imagine being able to connect 30+ devices on to one cable and plug that into your controller/mobo!

Cheers!

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress

Originally posted by: PaperclipGod

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
They won't change to SATA as long as we continue buying $15 AR CD-RW drives. If there's no demand, they won't be made. They know people are more likely to buy a $15 PATA optical over a $50+ SATA model.

EDIT:That said, SATA opticals can't come soon enough. These PATA cables just have to go...

you know you can just buy rounded cables for 50 cents, right?

I don't want to buy el-cheapo cables, especially when they can cause errors and burn up my blank discs. Yes I know CD-Rs are cheap, but it still sucks to have a CD become useless, then have to re-burn it and hope that one works.

Uh the cables are pretty damn simple I dont think it costs more than 50 cents to produce one.

 

[Auric]

Seek and ye shall find.

 

[Mindflux]

Originally posted by: Nebor
As of now, sata adapters don't work on CD drives... for whatever reason.

Funny, I've got a PATA to SATA adaptor that says it works fine on CDROMS and MO drives. I'll try it wednesday.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Mindflux

Originally posted by: Nebor
As of now, sata adapters don't work on CD drives... for whatever reason.

Funny, I've got a PATA to SATA adaptor that says it works fine on CDROMS and MO drives. I'll try it wednesday.

Newer PATA-SATA adapters do work on optical drives.