SATA vs. IDE DVD drive ??

[billyb0b]

Besides the obvious connection type, what's the difference (pros and/or cons) of using a SATA DVD burner over an IDE one?

 

[ZombieRitual]

I say SATA over IDE just for the ease of installation. I've always found it easier to use SATA cables instead of the IDE ribbons, not to mention it makes for a much less cluttered and messy mass inside your case.

 

[Slugbait]

My Smackover doesn't even support IDE. It also doesn't support PS/2, parallel or serial.

But I digress...a con is that you probably won't be able to re-use an IDE burner in a couple of years when you upgrade the rest of your system.

 

[billyb0b]

My Smackover doesn't even support IDE. It also doesn't support PS/2, parallel or serial.

But I digress...a con is that you probably won't be able to re-use an IDE burner in a couple of years when you upgrade the rest of your system.

i'm debating a two mobo's right now, one has an IDE connector, and one doesnt

 

[0roo0roo]

i swear my sata dvd drive is less prone to making my system hickup... you know when a optical drive stalls out your system during lead in/out burns and such junk.

 

[Mundos]

Sata burners are generally a couple bucks cheaper as well. I'd say sata...all new mobos have at least 4 sata ports, and it leaves you ide channel free for an old dvdrom or something. Sata, as stated above is better for your next machine as well, although cheap dvdrw's dont have the greatest history of lasting more than a couple years.

sata for sure.

 

[JackMDS]

IDE has No advantage, and it is in process of disappearing.

So it sort of a Moot question.

 

[Fox5]

IDE has No advantage, and it is in process of disappearing.

So it sort of a Moot question.

Well, IDE doesn't really have any disadvantages either (for the purposes of a dvd drive).

Advantage is just if you have an old IDE device, you can keep using it on IDE, instead of buying a new device. If you're buying something new, go with SATA.

 

[Ayah]

You need to use 4-pin molex for IDE drives, and a big fat 80 pin IDE cable.
SATA lets you use the standard sata power and the slim sata data cables.

No difference other than that.

 

[corkyg]

Go SATA. It is more efficient - no need to deal with M/S relationships. But, it is not bad to have a PATA IDE on the mobo to handle possible legacy devices. That can be handy. BTW, both SATA and PATA are IDE!

 

[Slugbait]

BTW, both SATA and PATA are IDE!

Whoa, hold on, let's not go all technical here! Next thing you know, people will get all confused when they find out that PATA didn't even exist until SATA was introduced...

 

[Cogman]

Sata is faster, easier to plug in, and is in active development. PATA is going the way of the ISA card. If you have a choice, choose sata, it is going to be around for a while.

 

[piasabird]

IDE = Dinosaur

 

[corkyg]

IDE = Dinosaur

Really? IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics. SATA drives are also IDE! That may be technical, but that's the way it is.

 

[MrBorsa]

I think SATA is better than IDE coz of it's speed in data transfer, but i didn't like seagate in SATA

 

[Zepper]

Even the PATA interface is faster than most drive mechanicals.

.bh.

 

[lothar]

Sata is faster, easier to plug in, and is in active development. PATA is going the way of the ISA card. If you have a choice, choose sata, it is going to be around for a while.

Huh?
Last time I researched 4 years ago, 16x Burners weren't anywhere close to maximizing the PATA interface.
I know there are 22x and 24x burners out now. Are they anywhere close to maximizing the interface now? If not, then SATA is not any faster(for optical drives at least).

 

[Cogman]

Huh?
Last time I researched 4 years ago, 16x Burners weren't anywhere close to maximizing the PATA interface.
I know there are 22x and 24x burners out now. Are they anywhere close to maximizing the interface now? If not, then SATA is not any faster(for optical drives at least).

SATA, The interface, is faster. Just because you saddle sata with a slow device, doesn't mean that SATA is slow, your device is slow.

What you are saying is akin to saying something like this

"USB 3.0 is the same speed as USB 1.0 because I plugged in my printer in a USB 3.0 port and saw no difference in speed".

Completely not true. The interface is capable of much faster communication, your device, isn't.

SATA is faster then PATA. SATA devices MIGHT not be faster then PATA but they have the bandwidth available to be faster.

 

[Cogman]

Let me just add that we will probably never see a good example of a PATA bottleneck because the industry has wisely switched over before it becomes a problem.

 

[dfuze]

I've got one of each in different PCs. The SATA is much nicer, allowing me better wire management, even if you use one of the rounded IDE cables.

 

[lothar]

SATA, The interface, is faster. Just because you saddle sata with a slow device, doesn't mean that SATA is slow, your device is slow.

What you are saying is akin to saying something like this

"USB 3.0 is the same speed as USB 1.0 because I plugged in my printer in a USB 3.0 port and saw no difference in speed".

Completely not true. The interface is capable of much faster communication, your device, isn't.

SATA is faster then PATA. SATA devices MIGHT not be faster then PATA but they have the bandwidth available to be faster.

This thread is about SATA vs. PATA DVD drives.
If you want to argue on the merit of other devices which benefit from the SATA interface speed, feel free to argue that in another thread or create your own.

Can anyone answer my technical questions?
At what "*.*"X speed would DVD Burners be bottlenecked on a PATA interface?
At what "*.*"X speed would Blu-Ray burners/readers be bottlenecked on a PATA interface?

So far the only benefit I see is less cable clutter.
The disadvantage of course is you lose a SATA port(If your mobo has limited SATA ports or you're a storage junkie with lots of HDD's).

The point of the OP's thread isn't really clear...
Is he looking to buy a DVD drive simply because he doesn't have one or it's slow? If so, go with SATA.
If he already has a PATA DVD drive and wants to see if there's any benefit to upgrading to SATA and shelling out $30 for a new drive, then there's a bit of cloud there.

I personally wouldn't buy a new SATA DVD drive simply because it's now becoming an industry standard if my PATA drive works fine and isn't bottlenecked by the interface.
If I was buying a new DVD drive, then sure SATA no question.

 

[lothar]

Let me just add that we will probably never see a good example of a PATA bottleneck because the industry has wisely switched over before it becomes a problem.

I agree.