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MAGIC
27 Aug 2005, 7:48am
plex makes the only ones that i know of, anyone know why these havent caught on? are there problems with them?
Mt_Goat
29 Aug 2005, 3:37am
My personal opinion is that they don't offer any real world performance advantages over their IDE counterparts and are quite a bit more costly. Besides, what else are you going to do with those IDE ports? :D I have all SATA HD's and both of my ROM drives are "masters" on the 2 IDE's. It works out quite well that way.
GrayFox
29 Aug 2005, 3:39am
[V][AGIC']plex makes the only ones that i know of, anyone know why these havent caught on? are there problems with them?
They haven't because most boards have problems with sata cd roms.
primesuspect
29 Aug 2005, 3:46am
I have experience with the plextor sata drives, and I had a nightmare of a time trying to get the machine to recognize it. Make SURE your board supports the drive, that's all I have to say.

The only advantage I can see is cleaner cabling.
MAGIC
29 Aug 2005, 11:17pm
I have experience with the plextor sata drives, and I had a nightmare of a time trying to get the machine to recognize it. Make SURE your board supports the drive, that's all I have to say.

The only advantage I can see is cleaner cabling.

all i wanted it for was pretty much for cabling, but i had a gut fealing that i was having problems with it so i figured ide just ask. ill pass on it for now