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Answer» I just got an INTERNAL DVD ROM Drive and it is a SATA Conection not an IDE Conection.
Now the Specs say
DVD+R WRITE SPEED 20 X
DVD+RW RE WRITE SPEED 8 X
DVD READ SPEED 16 X
And it has a 2. MB Buffer
But what I want to know is this?
My Internal SATA Ports on the Motherboard are SATA 2. so realy they run at 300 MBps
Now my Internal IDE Port on the Motherboard runs at 133 MBps
Now SATA is faster then IDE but when you put a DVD in the Drive having a SATA Speed will not make my DVD Play Batter then if I had it Connected to the IDE YES or NO??
No.So because my DVD Rive is SATA Connected with this help in the speed of the Burning or Reading of DVDs and CDs?
Or should I have spent less and got an IDE if it will not make any kind of a diferance??? The greatest difference for data access between SATA and IDE is with Hard Drives and not DVD Roms...DVD drives communicate slower than Hard Drives due to their design of a single eye in the DVD Rom to READ the Disk ( single platter ), while a Hard Drive has many heads and platters to acquire data exponentially faster. You wont notice any difference with both IDE and SATA for DVD drives unless you are saturating the channels in which you are multitasking to the max. The MAXIMUM bandwidth of 300mbps would only be fully utilized by a hard drive and not a DVD drive.
Many other factors can degrade DVD PERFORMANCE other than whether its IDE or SATA. I'd look elsewhere like RAM, Video Card, CPU, ETC if you have lag issues and you know that the DVD Drive is healthy.Quote HUH Huh Huh Huh
Likewise, I notice that when I hook up my keyboard to a new USB 2,0 instead of the old PS/2. my typing speed is just as slow as ever.Thank you for the help but going by the specs I gave you above about the DVD ROM Burner I just got should I return it for an IDE and go for a Realy Cheep one???
It is a DL DVD Burner
And look at the speeds I gave
I think it was around $ 20 USA and I did not know if maybe I should have got an IDE one.
What do you think???SATA DVD drives are no faster than IDE.
However, the cabling is neater (better airflow) and there are no jumpers etc to worry about.
I'd stick with SATA, myself, and $20 seems fair to me for a DVD drive.
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