jedijeff123
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is there much benefit in a sata optical drive other than improved airflow? (i.e. less cables) 
SATA cd/dvd drive
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The_Other_One
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Haha, I don't even see how IDE cables disrupt airflow THAT much unless it's right in front of a fan(or the blade gets caught on it 
) But no, there's no improvements over IDE/PATA. Aside, I guess, from not having to set the Master/Slave stuff.
) But no, there's no improvements over IDE/PATA. Aside, I guess, from not having to set the Master/Slave stuff.i got two samsung 18x sata dvd-r drives a few days ago.
they work fine, and one benefit (yes! a benefit!) i noticed is i can be writing a cd with one drive at full 16x speed, while watching a dvd on the other, and since there's no shared bus bandwidth, there's no inteference whatsoever between the two drives, since they both have their own connection to the motherboard.
no speed difference, tho. i really just got it cause i wanted to take advantage of some of the lonely sata ports on my computer, it's just neat that there's no cross interference between the two drives, even when one drive is locked (in a writing situation)
they work fine, and one benefit (yes! a benefit!) i noticed is i can be writing a cd with one drive at full 16x speed, while watching a dvd on the other, and since there's no shared bus bandwidth, there's no inteference whatsoever between the two drives, since they both have their own connection to the motherboard.
no speed difference, tho. i really just got it cause i wanted to take advantage of some of the lonely sata ports on my computer, it's just neat that there's no cross interference between the two drives, even when one drive is locked (in a writing situation)
jedijeff123
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ok thx the drive im looking at is 40 and its got lightscribe too so im pretty much chosen on that one
jedijeff123
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im lookin at the samsung one
some plextor PATA drives have 8mb of cache as well
i haven't seen any data to show that it makes a noticeable improvement in preventing underruns, or instances of burn-proof needing to activate
i'd be interested to know if it realistically makes ANY difference
i remember my original 2x sony back in 1996 had 512kb of cache, hahaha, and now that drives have adjustable on the fly speeds, and buffer underrun protection, i don't know if it really makes any difference at all.
buffer-underrun protection is nearly seamless anymore, i've had disks fall into buffer underrun protection 10-20 times when i had heavy fragmentation on my hard drive, and they still played seemlessly on even standalone dvd-players
i haven't seen any data to show that it makes a noticeable improvement in preventing underruns, or instances of burn-proof needing to activate
i'd be interested to know if it realistically makes ANY difference
i remember my original 2x sony back in 1996 had 512kb of cache, hahaha, and now that drives have adjustable on the fly speeds, and buffer underrun protection, i don't know if it really makes any difference at all.
buffer-underrun protection is nearly seamless anymore, i've had disks fall into buffer underrun protection 10-20 times when i had heavy fragmentation on my hard drive, and they still played seemlessly on even standalone dvd-players
TheCountryClub
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Does NEC make any SATA optical drives? I can't find any...