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SATA DVD burners going mainstream 'in second half of 2007'

by Bob Crabtree on 29 November 2006, 14:01

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Whenever we run a news story about the latest, greatest internal DVD burner, the related forum thread always carries at least a few posts bemoaning the fact that what's been launched is ATAPI/E-IDE, not SATA. Well, that's going to change but, seemingly, not until the second half of next year.

According to a report on DigiTimes, burner makers in Taiwan are saying they expect to start switching mid-year as result of two factors - new PCs will be running the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system and many will be carrying Intel's P965 chipset, which properly supports SATA burners and DVD drives.

Consequently, more SATA drives will be made and prices will start to come down to the same level as ATAPI/E-IDE models.

Check out the DigitTimes article and let us know in this thread in the HEXUS.lifestyle.news forum just how much difference the ready availability of affordable SATA burners will make to you.

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DigiTimes - Intel P965, Microsoft Vista to boost adoption of SATA optical drives
Serial ATA International Organization - home page

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Posted by scarbunny - Tue 16 Jan 2007 12:52
which properly supports SATA burners and DVD drives.

Ive got a Samsung SH-S183A, SATA DVD-RW, mainly because of the reduced IDE support on modern mobo's and me having lots of IDE drives i wanted to keep.

What sort of issues have been reported with SATA drives, so i can keep a look out in future.
Posted by Tobeman - Tue 16 Jan 2007 13:12
scarbunny
What sort of issues have been reported with SATA drives, so i can keep a look out in future.

My friend has a Plextor (older SATA DVDRW, I know its not the latest model number out as I spoke to him about it the other week.)

He had a cheap Asus skt939 motherboard, think it was SIS chipset based (ergh!) and would refuse to boot from it. Sold him my Asus A8N-Premium SLI for a mini-upgrade. Its an nForce 4 based board. Works fine! :)