Is anyone using an SATA burner??

[Jonathan]

I am trying to decide on whether to give an sata burner a try. I need to do something. There is a thread of mine a few posts down about slow burn speeds. I've tried absolutely everything, and have narrowed it to 2 options.

a. Buy an IDE controller to get my 2 burners off the same cable, or
b. buy an SATA burner

Is Plextor the only one making them? Could someone give me some advice??

Thanks a bunch!!

[dun4cheap]

You could buy a firewire to eide cable, or a sata to eide device. I just bought 2 Sata 2 eide devices for $9 each from geeks. Myself though, I now use an external case with a duplicator card. 1 - 7 target.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIL3611&cpc=SCH

or

usb to eide

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=USB2IDE-25-35&cat=CBL&cpc=CBLbsc

These will work for cd roms or hard drives.

My new asus mother board has 3 eide channels (6 devices) and 6 sata ports and 8 usb2 ports, so I have 2 burners on one channel, 2 300 Gig eide hard drives, 3 300gig sata drives and 1 400 gig sata2 drive. I do a lot of video editing.

[budz]

I bought a sata to ide converter to use on a PIONEER 111D@111L drive. It works well with the PIONEER drive. I have the converter hooked up to the PIONEER drive then use the SATA cable to my ASUS mobo. I have 3 other dvd burners in that pc. If you decide on getting the sata to ide converter make sure you get the one that has the JMICRON 20330 chipset.

Here's a thread about using a sata to ide converter from the Pioneer forum at CdFreaks.com.
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=189127

[redwudz]

Plextor seems to be the only one out there. There seems to be a few problems with SATA DVD drives if this thread on CD Freaks is correct: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=164946

Probably a PCI ATA controller card (ATA 33/66 compatible) or a SATA to ATA converter would be your best solution.

[Jonathan]

Hey Budz, which one did you buy for the Pioneer?

[budz]

Hey Budz, which one did you buy for the Pioneer?

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-IDE2SATA-20330&cat=CCD

as long as the chipset is JMICRON JM20330 any brand will be fine.

[Jonathan]

Thanks. I just ordered one. Maybe getting things off the same IDE will speed things up a bit.