SATA optical drives

[Richard Dower]

http://www.plextor.be/English/products/PX712A.html

As some of you know Plextor have announced their new 12x DVD+R drive to
launch in May. They also state a Serial ATA version will be available as
well, my question is....what advantage will a SATA optical drive bring?

Will it be native SATA or a bridge?, if it's a bridge then it can only go as
fast as the PCI interface, 133MB/s.

How will this drive be displayed in Device Manager under Windows XP?, listed
under SCSI and RAID Devices?

And will it show the transfer rate as UDMA 6 or 5?, i understand it will
have the new SATA connector + the power connector.

But what real advantages will SATA optical drives have for the end
consumer??

 

[Ric H]

http://www.plextor.be/English/products/PX712A.html

As some of you know Plextor have announced their new 12x DVD+R drive
to launch in May. They also state a Serial ATA version will be
available as well, my question is....what advantage will a SATA
optical drive bring?

Will it be native SATA or a bridge?, if it's a bridge then it can
only go as fast as the PCI interface, 133MB/s.

How will this drive be displayed in Device Manager under Windows XP?,
listed under SCSI and RAID Devices?

And will it show the transfer rate as UDMA 6 or 5?, i understand it
will have the new SATA connector + the power connector.

But what real advantages will SATA optical drives have for the end
consumer??

fvck all advantage, really. small cables, will eventually allow P-ATA to be
phased out, i guess. there's no optical drive on the market that'll
saturate a P-ATA bus anyway.

ric