Why not have optical SATA drives?

[KillaKilla]

Since most new motherboards have SATA, and many of them support more than 8 drives, and the bandwidth is not really an issue for optical drives, why not have CD and DVD drives on the SATA bus? That way we would be more future proof in our purchases, assuming that PATA doesn't stay on motherboards for more than 6 or 7 years from now.

 

[theblackbox]

plextor is offering one, eithernow or soon. PX-712SA

 

[boyRacer]

saw a plextor sata dvd burner at FRYs yesterday... didn't even know that. guess i'm out of the loop.

 

[wexsmith]

MSI is also offering one; the XA52P. It's a CDRW/DVD combo drive though.

 

[magomago]

because it provides no benefit beyond a smaller wier Even 16X DVD Burner doesn't max out ATA33...

basically you are paying more...for the exact same thing that doesn't provide any real benefits. Although if the extra cost is worth the thinner cable to you, by all means go for it. But until then, there is no preformance difference between PATA and SATA optical drives, and to me that doesn't justify the cost (Then again i'm not in the market for one )