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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm
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What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

"gecko" <alpha DeleteThis @olympus.net> wrote in message news:31itr3h8jscgkcu69a0m9aci0p18kipgmu@4ax.com... > What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? > > Thanks > > Gecko If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE connectors! >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

"GT" <ContactGT_remove_ RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message news:011614ae$0$4597$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... > "gecko" <alpha RemoveThis @olympus.net> wrote in message > news:31itr3h8jscgkcu69a0m9aci0p18kipgmu@4ax.com... >> What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? >> >> Thanks >> >> Gecko > > If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE > connectors! Plus - hot swapping. >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

GT wrote: > "GT" <ContactGT_remove_.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:011614ae$0$4597$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... >> "gecko" <alpha.RemoveThis@olympus.net> wrote in message >> news:31itr3h8jscgkcu69a0m9aci0p18kipgmu@4ax.com... >>> What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Gecko >> If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE >> connectors! > > Plus - hot swapping. > > Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be physically neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to fiddle with. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

"John McGaw" <nobody RemoveThis @nowh.ere> wrote in message news:sYAvj.97381$N67.57880@bignews5.bellsouth.net... > GT wrote: >> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_ RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:011614ae$0$4597$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... >>> "gecko" <alpha RemoveThis @olympus.net> wrote in message >>> news:31itr3h8jscgkcu69a0m9aci0p18kipgmu@4ax.com... >>>> What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Gecko >>> If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE >>> connectors! >> >> Plus - hot swapping. > Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be physically > neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to > fiddle with. You do get round IDE cables. >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:21 -0000, "GT" <ContactGT_remove_.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote: >You do get round IDE cables. > No speed advantage??? Gecko >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

GT wrote: > "John McGaw" <nobody RemoveThis @nowh.ere> wrote: >> GT wrote: >>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_ RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> "gecko" <alpha RemoveThis @olympus.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA >>>>> >>>> If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no >>>> free EIDE connectors! >>> >>> Plus - hot swapping. >> >> Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be >> physically neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no >> master/slave jumpers to fiddle with. > > You do get round IDE cables. Each of which mounts only one drive, rather than two for PATA (IDE). The round cables can be dressed slightly better. There is no practical performance advantage. -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> Try the download section. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

In message <1rstr3p3vh449s6v81vibt7986mjcgm6e8.RemoveThis@4ax.com> gecko <alpha.RemoveThis@olympus.net> wrote: >No speed advantage??? No. Few, if any, consumer optical drives on the market can exceed ATA-100's bus speed. There is no performance benefit increasing non-bottlenecking components. >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

gecko wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:21 -0000, "GT" > <ContactGT_remove_ DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> You do get round IDE cables. >> > > No speed advantage??? > > Gecko No speed advantage I can imagine with an optical drive -- the data rate is so slow that PATA would have no trouble keeping up. Even the fastest SATA hard drives aren't all that much faster than regular ATA-100 can handle and optical drives are not nearly so fast as that. IIRC a 16X DVD is < 25mB/s and that isn't likely to be sustained. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 10) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

GT wrote: > "John McGaw" <nobody.RemoveThis@nowh.ere> wrote in message > news:sYAvj.97381$N67.57880@bignews5.bellsouth.net... >> GT wrote: >>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:011614ae$0$4597$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... >>>> "gecko" <alpha.RemoveThis@olympus.net> wrote in message >>>> news:31itr3h8jscgkcu69a0m9aci0p18kipgmu@4ax.com... >>>>> What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Gecko >>>> If you have a motherboard with free SATA connectors, and no free EIDE >>>> connectors! >>> Plus - hot swapping. >> Plus one less bulky cable to obstruct airflow. Plus it can be physically >> neater if one obsesses over such things. Plus no master/slave jumpers to >> fiddle with. > > You do get round IDE cables. > > Yeah, you can always get round IDE cables although I've never much liked them -- have had bad luck with them a few times. But you'd still have a far larger cross-section that that of a SATA cable and you'll never find long ones for neat routing as you can with SATA. I'm not always one to embrace changing hardware standards but in the case of SATA I think that they got it pretty close to right although the overly cheap connector construction still leaves a bit to be desired. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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(Msg. 11) Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: SATA vs PATA? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:04:47 GMT, gecko <alpha DeleteThis @olympus.net> wrote: >What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner? > >Thanks > >Gecko That newer motherboards have more SATA than PATA ports so unless you plan on having a lot of SATA HDDs, it will have more future support. On the other hand if adding it to an existing system it may be more important what that system supports. As others mentioned optical drives don't benefit from SATA so if you have a limited # of SATA ports it would be better to put SATA hard drives on those than buy any new PATA HDDs. >> Stay informed about: SATA vs PATA?

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