SATA DVD burner?

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BeeIzebub

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Ok, i just checked the egg for a sata dvd burner and they are veeeerry expensive and they are out of stock. Can I just take an ide to sata converter and slap it on a burner and it will work? I know it works with hd's without a problem, but I dont know how it works with a burner. I know its silly to use a sata instead of a ide, but with boards that have 8 sata inputs, and me wanting a clean looking case I figured hey wth.

so can I use the adapter on a dvd burner?
 
I believe you can. I remember reading some of the Neweggs reviews on those ide to sata convertors and people saying that they hooked up there dvd and cdrom drives to them.
 
the "true" sata burners may be. The sata transfer is 150 opposed to the 133 max on ide. I'd be doing it for less cpu usage and smaller wires.
 
They are not any faster. 16x burn is what, 22MB/second? Thats not even ata-33 speed.

For bandwidth, SATA dvd drives are a waste by the numbers.

for ease of installation, cable management, they are awesome. But sorry, a sata 16x burner isnt going to burn any faster than a pata 16x burner.
 
I didnt know what the actual burn speed was for the burners, I havnt gotten any dvd burners yet. But like I said, I'd be doing it for the thin cables so my case mod looks cleaner. The adapters these days are really cheap.
 
The burn speeds are the same. I wouldn't pay more for an SATA burner. Something has to use those empty IDE connectors on your mobo doesn't it? :)
 
1x DVD = 1350k/sec
1x CD = 150k/sec

DVDs will have to be at 98x to saturate ATA133. Not gonna happen. DVDs will top out around 32-48x(43-65MB/sec). Even at 48x, you are barely saturating ATA66.

Even with blueray (1x = 36mbit = 4.5MB/sec) we're looking at 29x to saturate ATA133.


So in case anyone was wondering, ATA133 is more than adequate for optical storage for the next few years. SATA is just better for cable management.
 
Is there any other KNOWN SATA burners except the plextor one I see at newegg. Also, is there any SATA burners that are slot load?
 
Dew said:
DVDs will top out around 32-48x(43-65MB/sec).
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Not going to happen I'm affraid. 16X is the threshold before the vibrations caused become a problem with DVDs.

Luckily there's a new format battleground - dual-layer DVD!
 
GamezUK said:
Not going to happen I'm affraid. 16X is the threshold before the vibrations caused become a problem with DVDs.

Luckily there's a new format battleground - dual-layer DVD!
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...which isn't going past 8X anyway..
 
GamezUK said:
Not going to happen I'm affraid. 16X is the threshold before the vibrations caused become a problem with DVDs.

Luckily there's a new format battleground - dual-layer DVD!
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BTW, this is due to the fact that DVDs spin faster than CDs per X. So a 1x dvd is spinning about 3 times as fast as a 1x cd. Thus we have 48x cd burners and 16x dvd burners, both spinning at the same (approximate) rotational speed.
 
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