IDE or SATA

Have to buy a new DVD drive and have the option of either IDE or SATA
connection. Told that when it comes to optical drives it's better to
purchase IDE drives. Any opinions on this?

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:11:26 -0400, Jan Alter wrote:

> "John" <> wrote in message
> news:1h7rgnwyod3sy$.1sigp69v6rriq$.. ..
>> Have to buy a new DVD drive and have the option of either IDE or SATA
>> connection. Told that when it comes to optical drives it's better to
>> purchase IDE drives. Any opinions on this?
>
>
> I haven't noticed any bottleneck using SATA compared to IDE drives in
> realtime use. Since IDE is fading having the option to use the DVD drive on
> an upgraded board in the future, that might not even have an IDE connection,
> would seem like the logical choice.

Makes sense, thanks.

Jan Alter wrote:
> "John" <> wrote in message
> news:1h7rgnwyod3sy$.1sigp69v6rriq$.. ..
>> Have to buy a new DVD drive and have the option of either IDE or SATA
>> connection. Told that when it comes to optical drives it's better to
>> purchase IDE drives. Any opinions on this?
>
>
> I haven't noticed any bottleneck using SATA compared to IDE drives in
> realtime use. Since IDE is fading having the option to use the DVD
> drive on an upgraded board in the future, that might not even have an
> IDE connection, would seem like the logical choice.

Definitely agree.
IDE is gone the way of AGP video cards, and it would be foolish to go that
way if you can use SATA now.

Two years down the road SATA will be obsolete, and they'll have a new
standard for everything, just so we have to keep spending money.

I don't agree. But 2 or 3 years ago, I would have.

Today, however, go with SATA.

John wrote:
> Have to buy a new DVD drive and have the option of either IDE or SATA
> connection. Told that when it comes to optical drives it's better to
> purchase IDE drives. Any opinions on this?

John wrote:
> Have to buy a new DVD drive and have the option of either IDE or SATA
> connection. Told that when it comes to optical drives it's better to
> purchase IDE drives. Any opinions on this?

I don't have any IDE drives in my computer. SATA DVD is great and the
cable size compared to IDE is terrific.