SATA DVD writer problem?

[berrick]

Morning All,

Just a quick post to ask you all for opinions on using SATA DVD writers with imgburn, PGCedit, VobBlanker and the other good utils out there to help us with DVD authoring.

Or if any one has encountered specific problems using them?

Also what are peeps thoughts on the best DVD writer currently

Thanks in advance

[r0lZ]

I suppose that the only program that could possibly have problems with SATA writers is ImgBurn, as the other programs do not use the burner at all.
But knowing the high quality of ImgBurn, I'm almost sure it works well with SATA burners (although I haven't tested that myself.)

[blutach]

Also what are peeps thoughts on the best DVD writer currentlyIt's all subjective. See rule 12.

Regards

[rcubed]

[QUOTE=berrick;952940]Morning All,


Or if any one has encountered specific problems using them?


Thanks in advance[/QUOTBerrick,

I have two Plextor 716SAs connected to my system (Asus A8N-SLI Premium) and have no problems with them especially using ImgBurn - really great program btw. A word of caution, the chip set that interfaces with the SATA drive can be a real problem. The 716SAs did not work with my previous mobo Asus A7N8X-Deluxe on board SATA chip set. I did get it to work using a Promise SATA II TX4, but it was sensitive on the driver, and what slot the adapter was placed in the mobo.

Rcubed[/B]

[CWR03]

From what I've read, SATA optical drives are limited in use to certain motherboards.

[Dr.Khron]

Dude, there is almost NO reason whatsoever to use SATA for your optical drives. It provides no speed benefit, and as Dogbert mentioned, there are compatibility issues with many motherboards...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. PATA IDE (ATAPI) works great for optical burners. There is a reson that Mobos still have PATA IDE ports.

If you want a random suggestion, here is the one I bought from NewEgg 6 months ago:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827129002

Its the Pioneer DVR 111D, and its fast and reliable. I've never had ONE SINGLE BAD BURN.
Also, its only 33 bucks! You can't go wrong with that.

[Doom9]

There is a reson that Mobos still have PATA IDE ports.it's called legacy support. Because the large mass of users is usually slow to move away from an established standard (regardless of more or less good reasons to do so), mainboard manufacturers today have to pay extra to add a separate IDE controller because intel's latest chipsets only support SATA.
The APIs used to access an I/O device work regardless of the underlying physical protocol.. whether you have an IDE, SATA or SCSI burner really doesn't matter.

The most valid reason not to bothering with SATA if you're in the market for a new drive right now is that you are more likely to buy yet another drive after the one you're currently planning to buy before you'd have another machine where you can't plug in an IDE burner anymore because it has no IDE port anymore. Of course, that rules out people that keep their hardware for the better part of a century...

Keep in mind though: the less (potentially redundant and unused) parts are on a mainboard, the less likely are you to encounter problems or a failure that forces you to replace the whole thing.