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gecko
What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?
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Gecko
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Gecko
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GT
gecko said:What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?
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Gecko
If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE
connectors!
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GT
GT said:If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE
connectors!
Plus - hot swapping.
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John McGaw
Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be physicallyGT said:Plus - hot swapping.
neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to
fiddle with.
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GT
John McGaw said:Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be physically
neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to
fiddle with.
You do get round IDE cables.
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gecko
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CBFalconer
GT said:You do get round IDE cables.
Each of which mounts only one drive, rather than two for PATA
(IDE). The round cables can be dressed slightly better. There is
no practical performance advantage.
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John McGaw
gecko said:No speed advantage???
Gecko
No speed advantage I can imagine with an optical drive -- the data rate
is so slow that PATA would have no trouble keeping up. Even the fastest
SATA hard drives aren't all that much faster than regular ATA-100 can
handle and optical drives are not nearly so fast as that. IIRC a 16X DVD
is < 25mB/s and that isn't likely to be sustained.
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John McGaw
GT said:You do get round IDE cables.
Yeah, you can always get round IDE cables although I've never much liked
them -- have had bad luck with them a few times. But you'd still have a
far larger cross-section that that of a SATA cable and you'll never find
long ones for neat routing as you can with SATA. I'm not always one to
embrace changing hardware standards but in the case of SATA I think that
they got it pretty close to right although the overly cheap connector
construction still leaves a bit to be desired.
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DevilsPGD
In message <[email protected]> gecko
No. Few, if any, consumer optical drives on the market can exceed
ATA-100's bus speed. There is no performance benefit increasing
non-bottlenecking components.
No speed advantage???
No. Few, if any, consumer optical drives on the market can exceed
ATA-100's bus speed. There is no performance benefit increasing
non-bottlenecking components.
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kony
What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?
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Gecko
That newer motherboards have more SATA than PATA ports so
unless you plan on having a lot of SATA HDDs, it will have
more future support. On the other hand if adding it to an
existing system it may be more important what that system
supports. As others mentioned optical drives don't benefit
from SATA so if you have a limited # of SATA ports it would
be better to put SATA hard drives on those than buy any new
PATA HDDs.