SATA DVD Drive?

[mpisarcik]

So are they worth it at this junction? I mean, from what I've read, they aren't operating at "sata" speeds- just using it as the interface so there's less bulky cables.

Basically, I'm looking for a DVD drive that will burn dvd's, play movies, reliable, and quiet. Samsung and LG are the ones I've read good things about thus far.

However, is it worth waiting on? Will DVD drives soon utilize the full speed that SATA cables allow, or is this as good as it will get? Thanks-

 

[The_Other_One]

Access times for optical drives are still limited to around 33MB/s. Regardless of the interface, that's about all you'll get. However, many computers are going away from IDE. So, it really depends on your computer and the price. You won't gain any performance using SATA optical drives, but if you're computer doesn't have any IDE ports, it would be rather worthless to get an IDE Optical drive now wouldn't it

Optical drives will never utilize SATA speeds as they never utilized PATA/IDE speeds. Hard drives don't even utilize SATA speeds due to drive limitations.

 

[PC eye]

That is so correct there! I haven't seen one iota of speed gain having XP on both ide and sata drives here. For the new build in the works a sata dvd burner will see use there simply due to having Vista on one ide hard drive and the preference and application for two optical drives. For installing softwares or vcd projsts a cd writer is generally used unless the program(like some games) comes on dvd.

The dvd burner besides video projects sees data dvds. Where does that leave an ide HD on a board with only one ide channel? A single ide channle remains precisely since both optical and hard disks used are ide to make that available. Drive limitations are mainly based on them being ATA 100/133 while sata is ATA 150. WD Raptor 10000rpm drives are getting more popular due to the limits on the 7200rpm sata models seen.