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Writers, SATA OR ATAPI?

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Lavrenti Beria

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Looking at new Plextor DVD+R/RW drives, I'm struck with the fact that the two drives they feature, one an ATAPI device, the other an SATA, differ respecting CD writing speed. The ATAPI writes at 48X while the SATA writes at 40X. The SATA device is $10 more expensive than the ATAPI. Can there be any reason for preferring the SATA? Its slower and more costly.

Lavrenti Beria
 
If you had run out of IDE ports, that would be a reason.

SATA optical drives are still expensive (because they are produced in relatively low quantities) and sometimes have compatibility issues. Avoid them, for the time being, when possible.
 
I running a LiteOn SATA DVD Lightscribe burner on my second computer (Athlon 64 3000 Socket AM2 with a gig of DDR2, MCE) with no issues. The unit was purchased retail for 37 dollars and included Nero 7 Essentials. Does SL DVDs at 20X and CDs at 48X. Why did I get it? My mobo only supports 1 IDE connection, and I wanted to use a new 150 GB PATA HD that I had.
 
Originally posted by: jjsbasmt
I running a LiteOn SATA DVD Lightscribe burner on my second computer (Athlon 64 3000 Socket AM2 with a gig of DDR2, MCE) with no issues. The unit was purchased retail for 37 dollars and included Nero 7 Essentials. Does SL DVDs at 20X and CDs at 48X. Why did I get it? My mobo only supports 1 IDE connection, and I wanted to use a new 150 GB PATA HD that I had.
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That IDE connection supports two drives.
 
An acquaintance of mine told me he couldn't burn DVDs and do other stuff on his relatively nice computer (E4400 @ 3.0, various other goodies) because his HDD and DVD burner were on the same IDE connection. I have no idea if that's the actual problem, but since you can get a nice Samsung SATA burner on NewEgg for less than $40, I don't see much of a reason to continue with the dying IDE standard.
 
i have a plextor 755 SATA burner and am very happy with it. it burns everything i throw at it with no trouble at all. SATA burners are getting more popular now that motherboard manufactures are doing away with IDE connections. so your purchase of a SATA burner would be future proof too. on buying a plextor SATA burner be carefull whicn one you are buying as plextor rebadges a lot of their burners now so you are not getting a true plextor in some cases but another company rebadged and sold at higher price
 
Welcome to the AT forums.

This type of question also belongs in the "peripherals" section.

Some early SATA controllers don't support ATAPI drives (burners and similar), so be sure your controller supports ATAPI on SATA before buying. If you had stated the model numbers of the two drives, I could be of more help. The main advantage of SATA is the compact cables. No current drive can saturate even SATA-150, but they're closing in on it.

.bh.
 
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