SATA DVD burners going mainstream 'in second half of 2007'

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29-11-2006, 02:57 PM
Bob Crabtree

SATA DVD burners going mainstream 'in second half of 2007'

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Whenever we run a news story about the latest, greatest internal DVD burner, the related forum thread always carries at least a few posts bemoaning the fact that what's been launched is ATAPI/E-IDE, not SATA. Well, that's going to change but, seemingly, not until the second half of next year.

Burner makers in Taiwan are saying they expect to start switching mid-year as result of two factors - new PCs will be running the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system and many will be carrying Intel's P965 chipset, which properly supports SATA burners and DVD drives.

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16-01-2007, 01:52 PM
scarbunny

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which properly supports SATA burners and DVD drives.

Ive got a Samsung SH-S183A, SATA DVD-RW, mainly because of the reduced IDE support on modern mobo's and me having lots of IDE drives i wanted to keep.

What sort of issues have been reported with SATA drives, so i can keep a look out in future.
16-01-2007, 02:12 PM
Tobeman

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Originally Posted by scarbunny

What sort of issues have been reported with SATA drives, so i can keep a look out in future.

My friend has a Plextor (older SATA DVDRW, I know its not the latest model number out as I spoke to him about it the other week.)

He had a cheap Asus skt939 motherboard, think it was SIS chipset based (ergh!) and would refuse to boot from it. Sold him my Asus A8N-Premium SLI for a mini-upgrade. Its an nForce 4 based board. Works fine! :)