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cooperd1

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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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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.
 
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
 
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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