You think you have experience?

I did my first PC BUILD 21 years ago. I've used computers since I could walk and if you're a tech, it only proves that they'll give an A-Plus certification to anybody these days. The DVD-RW Drive is limited by the physics of the disk, not the data transfer rate. If you spun a piece of digital media, be it a CD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R, or DVD-RW fast enough to burn a 3.5 minute song in less than a second, the disk would fly apart! I'm going to have to agree with the person before me. You're lying through your fingertips. CD's, DVD's, Dual-Layer DVDs, HD DVDs (I know it doesn't exist anymore...lol) and Blu-Ray Discs can only spin so fast while being burned without damaging the data or the disk itself. The read AND write speeds of a disk are far less than than 13.3MB/s. That's like saying if you have DDR2-1066 but your mobo's fsb is only 800MHz, you will still get a performance boost from the 1066MHz RAM? Please, a bottleneck is a bottleneck and I don't care how fast the data gets to the drive, what matters is how fast it can be written or read. I always recommend an IDE DVD-RW drive over a SATA drive. The reason is that it leaves the SATA port free for something that can actually take advantage of the speed.



David Lewis wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
22-Feb-09

I am a computer tech with over ten years of experience in the field. SATA has a transfer rate of over 3000 MegaBytes a second and IDE ius limited to 130 MegaBytes a second. Although the actual write process is not going to come anywhere near 3000 MBs, with current technology, the trans fer dose greatly afeect the speed of the overall burn process. The other operstions that are performed are dramatically increased in speed. I just installed an ASUS DRW-22B1lt DVD RW that is SATA. It is EXTREMELY fast. Faster than any IDE DVD-RW that I have ever seen. It burns a 3 1/2 minute song in mp3 format in less than a second! So basically a whole album in under 20 seconds!

GET THE SATA DEFINITELY!!

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Monday, August 27, 2007 2:01 AM
Clayton wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
Is there a advantage of using a SATA DVD/RW Drive instead of a IDE Drive?

On Monday, August 27, 2007 3:26 AM
Juan Perez wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
Hi:

Not as far as I know. Using a SATA DVD/RW is just becasue you have migrated
to MOB to a new one with SATA. I depend more in the model of DVD that you
are using, than the interface.

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Un saludo
Juan Perez

"Clayton" wrote in message
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On Monday, August 27, 2007 8:36 AM
Bob I wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
Only if you do not have an open IDE connector available.

Clayton wrote:

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:27 AM
Paul Russell wrote:

performanceSATA was designed to supercede ATA (or sometimes referred to as
performance

SATA was designed to supercede ATA (or sometimes referred to as Parallel
ATA) .. has some really fast bus speeds, enhanced raid capability and
platter command queuing....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment


"Clayton" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:46 AM
Clayton wrote:

I was reading somewhere that the SATA DVD/RW drives only have a IDE to SATA
I was reading somewhere that the SATA DVD/RW drives only have a IDE to SATA
converter installed in them or similar

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:52 AM
Paul Russell wrote:

Nope..
Nope..

i have a lite-on here which has SATA native

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:03 AM
Clayton wrote:

Is this one native?
Is this one native?
http://www.plextor-asia.com/product/px-760sa.html

I have the 760A at present which is IDE

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:34 AM
Paul Russell wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
no lite-on

http://us.liteonit.com/us/index.php?...98&Item id=67

On Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:25 AM
Lil' Dave wrote:

How is that an advantage if the CD/DVD cannot read from or write to the media
How is that an advantage if the CD/DVD cannot read from or write to the
media any faster with either bus system?
Dave

On Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:57 AM
glenzab wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
Smaller cabling, eliminates the need for some to use IDE all together, helps
with airfow. Etc......

On Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:57 PM
David Lewis wrote:

IDE Vs SATA DVD/RW Drive
I am a computer tech with over ten years of experience in the field. SATA has a transfer rate of over 3000 MegaBytes a second and IDE ius limited to 130 MegaBytes a second. Although the actual write process is not going to come anywhere near 3000 MBs, with current technology, the trans fer dose greatly afeect the speed of the overall burn process. The other operstions that are performed are dramatically increased in speed. I just installed an ASUS DRW-22B1lt DVD RW that is SATA. It is EXTREMELY fast. Faster than any IDE DVD-RW that I have ever seen. It burns a 3 1/2 minute song in mp3 format in less than a second! So basically a whole album in under 20 seconds!

GET THE SATA DEFINITELY!!

On Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:19 AM
XXX wrote:

Sorry man, but I have 20 years of experience (I'm 24) and the advantage of SATA for DVD writer is minimum
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