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Pablo

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20th Jul 07 at 12:31

Better to go SATA than IDE then these days? Need a new DVD RW Drive so thought I better ask before I buy!

[Edited on 20-07-2007 by Pablo]

PaulW

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20th Jul 07 at 13:31

if the DVD/RW drive is the only one on the IDE channel, then leave it at that. The IDE bus can supply more than enough bandwidth for DVD/RW's if there on there own channel when coupled with SATA HDD's

Pablo

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25th Jul 07 at 10:20

Yes I have SATA Hard Drives! So I bought a SATA DVDRW Drive

dannymccann

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27th Jul 07 at 15:54

Sorry to drag thread up but i thought better than start a new one

I got DVD ROM (master) and DVDRAM (slave) IDE. Ive found that my RW isnt reading discs very well anymore for whatever reason, so would it be better to get a SATA RW (ie is there any speed increases for the extra you pay?) or to get another IDE just use the second channel (because I have 2 SATA HD's, no IDE ones)?

Is it worth upgrading to a SATA Rom as well (i.e. will game installs and CD ripping work faster (because it isnt my computer holding it back)?

Cheers

dannymccann

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31st Jul 07 at 06:30

ttt

Bart

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31st Jul 07 at 07:25

have you tried moving one of the dvd drives onto another IDE cable?

dannymccann

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31st Jul 07 at 14:32

i was going to but its an old drive anyway and its a bit slow (one of the first RAM drives) so it writes cd's at 24x and dvd's at 6x max or summat so thought going new would be best option

Also i hate IDE cables, they are very poor for air flow

Deadude

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31st Jul 07 at 18:23

u wont rly get any speed increases on sata but u will get better airflow etc IDE is slowly dieing these days...

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