Is it good to attached Sata CD DVD burner on SATA controllers

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General Hardware Forum Discuss, Is it good to attached Sata CD DVD burner on SATA controllers at Computer Hardware forum; I was just wondering if installing a CD/DVD burner on SATA controller is good or do they slow down my SATA hard drive. Here is my story, I ditch my old SCSI Teckram card but there was a Plextor CD drive on it, it was a good CD drive, very

WoW Stinks (New on Forum): Posts: 8; Posted: 05-12-2004

I was just wondering if installing a CD/DVD burner on SATA controller is good or do they slow down my SATA hard drive.

Here is my story, I ditch my old SCSI Teckram card but there was a Plextor CD drive on it, it was a good CD drive, very fast on CD ripping. Now I have empty open drive bay infront of my PC and I cant find the cover so I decided to just replace it with SATA CD or DVD burner.

What do you guys recommend a good SATA CD burner (if you post CD burner, it would be nice its a combo drive like CD burner that can play DVD) or DVD burner?

TIA

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Matth (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 1,554; Posted: 05-12-2004

At the moment, I suspect SATA writers are a novelty you will be paying way over the odds for.
You are unlikely to find anything less than a DVD writer in SATA format, though I have a dim recollection of a sample CD-RW drive (not known to have been released).
You MIGHT be able to get an ATA version to work through a converter, but it's pot luck.

SATA channels are independent, not Master/Slave, so the drive on one channel should not make any difference to the other.

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xtacydima (Moderator): Posts: 3,964; Posted: 05-12-2004

They are available

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rdgrimes (Retired Moderator): Posts: 11,533; Posted: 06-12-2004

Reports are varied and not very encouraging with SATA optical drives. Do not plan on being able to boot to one or install Windows from one, and you will also find that some utilities and firmware flashers will not play nice with them. Personally, I see no reason to have one. But then I also happen to be running one of only 2 known LiteOn SATA CDRW drives. See the link in my sig for more details. Strickly a novelty. Apart form the small advantage of having the drive on it's own port, you will gain nothing.

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