Sata

cooperd1 · 12-30-2006, 06:45 PM

Hi..

Ive been looking at buying a DVD burner. Alot of them seem to say they connect using SATA. I don't know what that is.

How do I know if I have the connection for it?

heyman421 · 12-31-2006, 09:10 AM

**The_Other_One** · 12-31-2006, 10:10 AM

What do you mean most are SATA? On newegg, for example, they have 90 PATA(IDE) CD/DVD burners, but only 7 SATA burners...

No optical drive comes close to matching SATA speeds, nor do they even hit the highest PATA speeds. It's be a much better choice to get a PATA drive. There's no advantage to SATA CD/DVD drives, and they are much cheaper.

heyman421 · 12-31-2006, 10:26 AM

ya, no point

sata hard drives are faster (i believe the bus speed is 3gb, someone can correct me) and they're cheaper to boot

sata burners are the exact same as the ata versions, with a sata to ata bridge, so they're exactly the same, in some cases have more errors, and cost more to boot

either one's a better solution than external, tho, so if you have no ata ports free, then go with the sata

cooperd1 · 12-31-2006, 06:53 PM

I never said most have sata, I said alot of them. Alot of the ones I had found say sata next to their names.

Thanks for the help anyway. I'll just go with the other type.

[-0MEGA-] · 12-31-2006, 07:00 PM

In addition, SATA drives are much more expensive then IDE ($100 vs $30 for instance).

fade2green514 · 12-31-2006, 08:38 PM

actually... bought a drive for my bros comp and it came... it was sata!
no biggie, there was an extra port.. windows installed in like 5-10 minutes!
that was a surprise.
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16827106047
thats the one, not that much more expensive is it?
personally, i think sata is easier to install... now screwing around with drive jumpers and slave/master crap.

Bobo · 12-31-2006, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fade2green514

no biggie, there was an extra port.. windows installed in like 5-10 minutes!

Windows installation times have nothing to do with whether the CD drive is IDE or SATA

**The_Other_One** · 12-31-2006, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fade2green514

windows installed in like 5-10 minutes!

As bobo said, SATA or PATA has no impact on speed with regards to CD-ROMs. A 16x DVD will be read/written at 21.13MB/s. Obviously, that's MUCH slower than even typical PATA speeds(133MB/s)

cooperd1 · 01-07-2007, 05:42 AM

I got this IDE one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/LiteOn-SHM-1.../dp/B000E3CCL8
for £26

thanks for the info

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cooperd1 New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	Sata Hi.. Ive been looking at buying a DVD burner. Alot of them seem to say they connect using SATA. I don't know what that is. How do I know if I have the connection for it?

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12-31-2006, 10:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
heyman421 banned Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,349	ya, no point sata hard drives are faster (i believe the bus speed is 3gb, someone can correct me) and they're cheaper to boot sata burners are the exact same as the ata versions, with a sata to ata bridge, so they're exactly the same, in some cases have more errors, and cost more to boot either one's a better solution than external, tho, so if you have no ata ports free, then go with the sata

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cooperd1 New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	I never said most have sata, I said alot of them. Alot of the ones I had found say sata next to their names. Thanks for the help anyway. I'll just go with the other type.

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cooperd1 New Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	I got this IDE one http://www.amazon.co.uk/LiteOn-SHM-1.../dp/B000E3CCL8 for £26 thanks for the info

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