SATA vs PATA?

What would be the advantage of a SATA DVD burner over a PATA burner?

Thanks

Gecko

"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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> 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!

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> "gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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>> 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.

GT wrote:
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>> "gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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>>> 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.

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> GT wrote:
>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> "gecko" <alpha@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.

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:21 -0000, "GT"
<ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote:


>You do get round IDE cables.
>

No speed advantage???

Gecko

GT wrote:
> "John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote:
>> GT wrote:
>>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "gecko" <alpha@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.

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gecko wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:21 -0000, "GT"
> <ContactGT_remove_@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

GT wrote:
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>> GT wrote:
>>> "GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> "gecko" <alpha@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

In message <1rstr3p3vh449s6v81vibt7986mjcgm6e8@4ax.com> gecko
<alpha@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.