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Serial ATA Writers?
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:31 pmby club_ice
When do you think we will see more drives taking advantage of the Serial ATA interface?
I am looking forward to drives from the mainstream producers like LG, NEC, Mitsumi, etc.
The Plextor PX-712SA looks nice but its expensive and is outgunned feature wise by lower priced drives capable of DL recording and 16x speeds.
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:02 pmby Ian
BenQ, MSI and others announced a bunch last year, but they never shipped. I have a feeling they're waiting for better chipset support. If you didn't know, a lot of SATA chipsets don't support ATAPI drives very well.
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:20 pmby Gen-An
The PX-716SA is out in many countries now.
Re: Serial ATA Writers?
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:52 pmby Boba_Fett
club_ice wrote:When do you think we will see more drives taking advantage of the Serial ATA interface?
Advantage of what difference? There is absolutely NOTHING a SATA interface could provide an advantage for compared a PATA optical drive.
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Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:29 pmby Gen-An
Less clutter inside the case due to thinner wires
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:56 amby hoxlund
haha yeah less clutter, cleaner looking case for me thats more important
my msi seems to be finicky with cd burning and my nforce chipset
but all i use it for is to rip dvd movies, cd burning i can do from pioneer 108 drive
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:27 amby rdgrimes
There is one advantage: no shared ports.
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:52 pmby Scour
rdgrimes wrote:There is one advantage: no shared ports.
and longer cables for big towers
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:33 pmby hoxlund
anything longer then 24" on SATA cables? just put my 2 UV reactive SATA cables in today, they were 24"
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:29 pmby club_ice
Advantages?
I was thinking as others mentioned, thinner cables, single channel support, less CPU overhead.
The migration from PATA interface is inevitable, I was just curious as to when this migration will occur. In the graphics market the push to PCI Express is on. New graphic cards in AGP versions have still yet to appear, eg. Radeon X850 Line.