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Sata cd/dvd roms....
« on: September 13, 2007, 05:26:08 pm »
I was wondering if this is the thing of the future.  Would this be something worth putting into a new system build I saw one today for the first time.  I have never used & was just curious what are the advantages of having, speed etc... a sata cd/dvd rom vs a ide...im guessing speed.  Just looking for some opinions
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2007, 05:31:24 pm »
No speed diffrence, you are still limited by the mechanical nature of the drive. The benefits are the cable size and length options and that most modern motherboards only have one IDE connection on them.
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2007, 05:33:20 pm »
ok, thanks
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2007, 05:39:11 pm »
They are phasing out IDE connections on motherboards.  Eventually you won't be able to get a motherboard with an IDE port.

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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2007, 05:48:28 pm »
Considering our average customer could never even hope to figure out how to properly hook an IDE drive (yeah I'm not kidding :banghead:), SATA only isn't that bad an idea.
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2007, 05:57:39 pm »
I have a lot of ide drives but they are cheap to replace
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2007, 07:03:53 am »
SATA drives are cheap/getting cheaper, definetly the way to go. I have 2 hdd and a DVD in my desktop, as rMojoZ say's the space benefit's are ideal for airflow.

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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2007, 01:56:20 pm »
Quote from: MrMojoZ on September 13, 2007, 05:31:24 pm
No speed diffrence, you are still limited by the mechanical nature of the drive. The benefits are the cable size and length options and that most modern motherboards only have one IDE connection on them.

Actually, SATA is faster than IDE, just probably not fast enough to warrant an upgrade, unless you have the older ATA 100.
Here are some specs:

Common Buses and their Max Bandwidth
PCI   132 MB/s
AGP 8X   2,100 MB/s
PCI Express 1x   250 [500]* MB/s
PCI Express 2x   500 [1000]* MB/s
PCI Express 4x   1000 [2000]* MB/s
PCI Express 8x   2000 [4000]* MB/s
PCI Express 16x   4000 [8000]* MB/s
PCI Express 32x   8000 [16000]* MB/s
IDE (ATA100)   100 MB/s
IDE (ATA133)   133 MB/s
SATA   150 MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet   125 MB/s
IEEE1394B [Firewire]   100 MB/s

(From website: http://www.directron.com/expressguide.html)
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Re: Sata cd/dvd roms....
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2007, 04:01:46 pm »
Quote from: DaOld Man on September 14, 2007, 01:56:20 pm
Actually, SATA is faster than IDE, just probably not fast enough to warrant an upgrade, unless you have the older ATA 100.

It doesn't matter how fast the interface is, optical drives only spin so fast. Therefore a SATA optical gives no speed increae over an IDE one.
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