SATA + Slot Load?

[DopefishLives]

I've been shopping around Newegg but have been completely unable to find a slot-load DVD-burner that uses SATA. I'm quite astonished that optical drives have stayed PATA for so long given that SATA has been abundant on computers for the last three years.

Basically I want the same DVD/CD burning functionality I have now (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD don't interest me at this point, nor will they for at least another year) with the feature set I've grown fond of with Plextor such as Lightscribe, etc. The SATA is mostly to keep my computer clean inside but the better transfer rates and simplicity just make so much more sense over the IDE counter-part. I'm also big on slot-load drives and given how clean they look and the fact that damage is less likely to occur I can't really understand why they haven't grown in popularity as well.

If all else fails, Plextor offers a 16x slot-load DVD burner but it is PATA sadly, I will more than likely succumb to acceptance with that model.

_Kris

 

[Ockie]

Nope, no sata slot loads

 

[redd38]

I'm looking for the exact same thing! Does that Plextor drive you mentioned have Lightscribe?

 

[maximus1284]

I'm not sure what "slot load" refers to, but I've been looking at this drive for a little while:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827151141

I didn't even realize SATA optical drives existed until someone on this board mentioned them...are they that much better than IDE? if so I'll have to get one...

 

[bbz_Ghost]

The picture is just for use as an example, and it's a laptop drive, but even so... a "slot loader" is a CD/DVD drive that doesn't have a drive tray that slides in or out to hold the CD/DVD media. There's just a "slot" where you slide the CD/DVD inside the drive, when you get to a certain point the drive will grab the disc and pull it inside.

Same principle as in-dash car CD/DVD players.

Hope this helps... and for the record, I've never seen a slot loading SATA drive yet, maybe someone will make one. Would be pretty cool, I think.

 

[swatbat]

You could always get an ide slot load drive and get a sata to ide converter to throw on the back of it. Not as nice but you could still make it kinda clean.

 

[kent]

I just built a new computer with the Samsung SATA 18x and Liteon 18x

I haven't burned anything yet (still overclocking and testing!) but so far SATA rules. Smaller cables FTW.

I have nothing IDE and I love it.