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

[Bob Crabtree]

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.

Find out more in this HEXUS.lifestyle.headline and tell us here just how much difference the ready availability of affordable SATA burners will make to you.

[scarbunny]

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.

[Tobeman]

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!