DrSupachicken Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Hi Guys, When I was at the local PC Shop they had some SATA DVDRW drives? Has anyone tried them or know if they work? I was going to pick up and IDE DVDRW lightscrive drive, but I might see about the SATA ones. Cheers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53202-sata-optical-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 The SATA DVD chipsets are fairly new and less in terms of quality then the IDE versions with partial gain in speeds. I would wait until a few months until the manufacturers have worked out most the kinks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53202-sata-optical-drives/#findComment-379245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcletus Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I have only sata drives in my system and it works great. Using the samsung lightscribe dvd-rw drive and seagate 320gb drive. Only thing I noticed that is a little strange is the hd led on my case blinks every second, even though there is no hard disk or optical activity. I have heard that this is from the os polling the sata channel for removable media. This occurs in Vista, XP, and OSX. The light doesn't flicker if I boot without the sata optical plugged in. Not a big deal I guess. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53202-sata-optical-drives/#findComment-379276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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