Sata DVD drive

[ezefosure]

What is the differences between a sata and IDE dvd drive? the speed? Where will this speed be beneficial towards? The reading, or writing? Or both? How do i connect them to the motherboard? I have to use up the same sata ports i plug my HDDs into?

 

[The_Other_One]

I seriously doubt you'd see any speed difference considering most IDE optical drives still only run at ATA33...

SATA only uses one drive per cable. That's why some motherboards have 4 and even 8 different plugs.

 

[ezefosure]

Oh, ok. And so the sata dvd drive uses the sata power cables from my psu?
and some of the drives can take either one?

 

[PohTayToez]

The big benefit to SATA drives is that by only having one per cable, you can use multiple drives simultaneously with minimal slowdown.

 

[ezefosure]

can someone recommend a really good sata dvd DL burner?

 

[PohTayToez]

There is one on newegg for like $35ish and it has 5 stars, so it ought to be reliable.

 

[ezefosure]

can u show me a link? i tried to look for one but all i saw were Reader drives - no writers.

 

[The_Other_One]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010100005+1036506653&name=DVD+Burner

 

[ezefosure]

lol. most of those are ide. but i found a sata one. thanks tho

 

[heyman421]

i use two of the Samsungs, and i like them.

Like someone else said, the only benefit i've noticed is that there's no buffer problems when burning two discs at once. Sometimes with PATA drives, if one disc would finish first, and go to read the lead-out, it would suck the bandwidth and crash the other drive that was still writing data. There were also similar problems with lead-in.