SATA vs IDE

[mis3]

I am building a new PC. Now that we have more choices of SATA DVD writers, should I get a SATA drive in place of its IDE counterpart, in terms of performance, reliability ?

[redwudz]

Performance and reliability will likely be the same with a SATA optical drive as a PATA drive. But ease of setup should be better than a PATA drive. No jumpers. And the cables are smaller.

[Jah_Rankin]

Well said! I've been back and forth with my pc maker in regards to slow speeds from my sata dvd drives.

[edDV]

Save the SATA ports for future hard drive expansion.

[CrayonEater]

Cost and availability of the drive that suits your needs is an issue too. SATA drives are presently severely lacking in that regard. Until the availability of a better choice of SATA drives arrives, you are best sticking with a PATA.

[budz]

I have the SAMSUNG 183L SATA dvd burner which burns quite well. I do notice that the device buffer is steady at 100% when burning a dvd disc. Where as all my other dvd burners the buffer goes up and down.

[MozartMan]

It depends on the SATA chipset of the motherboard.
I have Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 motherboard with Intel P965 Express and Intel ICH8 chipset (ICH8 handles 4 out of 6 SATA ports).
I have two LiteOn SATA drives - one is Blu-ray burner, another one is DVD burner. They both work like a charm.

I saw on CDFreaks forums that people had problems with SATA burners because of other SATA chipsets.

[Jah_Rankin]

I have the same intel chipset as you on a Asus emery board with 6 Sata ports as well handling 3 hard drives (2 in raid array) and 2 sata burners, and 1 hd dvd rom, I get slow read & write speeds from my optical drives in my benchmarks.

[MozartMan]

I have the same intel chipset as you on a Asus emery board with 6 Sata ports as well handling 3 hard drives (2 in raid array) and 2 sata burners, and 1 hd dvd rom, I get slow read & write speeds from my optical drives in my benchmarks.

Well, it probably depends on the burner too.

My LiteOn SH-16A7S DVD burner:

1. rips DVD-ROM at ~10x
2. burns 8x DVD+RW at 8x
3. burns 16x DVD+R at 16x

My LiteOn Blu-ray burner burns 2x BD-RE disks at 2x.

[SingSing]

There are not too many PATA HD drives sold by the stores. They are mostly 160GB and up, as SATA HD drive, available in the stores.

[edDV]

depends on the stores.