Re: DVD Burner - IDE vs SATA


"Rhino" <no_offline_contact_please@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jeukke$bbu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Am I right in believing that a DVD burner using SATA is going to be noticeably faster in burning disks (given the same speed, e.g. 12X) than an IDE-based burner?

It's time I replaced my old burner because it's getting harder and harder to coax the drawer open. It can take up to five minutes of clicking on "Eject" in the Windows context menu before the darned thing finally opens. I have the ASUS-M3A motherboard which has SATA so I assume that I can get a SATA-based burner. (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

How many SATA devices will that board support? I already have two SATA hard drives and intend to install a third SATA hard drive very soon so is a SATA burner even possible or will I have exhausted my SATA capacity at that point?

Sorry, that may be a dumb question. I'm not a hardware guy and know almost nothing about SATA and IDE.


Please disregard this question. A quick Google brought up this page - http://www.computer-hardware-explained.com/sata-vs-ide.html - which says SATA is hands-down faster than IDE. I also see from a previous post I had made that someone already told me that I could connect 4 SATA devices to my ASUS M3A motherboard. That means my two existing SATA hard drives, a SATA DVD burner and a third SATA hard drive will all work together on my computer.

Forgive my bad memory ;-)

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Rhino

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