Another format goes byebye!

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mrk

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So today my old man got a lightscribe SATA DVDRW drive to replace the non lightscribe SATA DVDRW drive in his new Dell, I decided to jump on this opportunity and go all SATA, my hdds are all SATA and I ditched the floppy dirve eons ago and it was abot time I ditched the IDE dvdrw drives I currently have and lose the fat IDE cables altogether!

The Drive is an LG GSA-H13N and a RPCII firmware is out for it (now flashed) so all regionfree. Now I just need to get a second drive as this LG does not write to RAM discs which I use for the DVD recorder downstairs and I'll be set.

Anyone else phased out legacy hardware?

My case looks more empty now :p
 
got rid of my floppy drive a couple of weeks ago, still have an IDE DVD-ROM drive though.

Everything else is SATA.
 
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My case would be way better but I have one IDE hard drive 250GB so.. it messes up my cases wiring and makes it look a mess. All my DVD drives and hard drives are SATA :).
 
The only downer is that I have a UV CCFL and my IDE cable was fat and round UV reactive so now there is no more coolness inside the case! need to get some UV SATA leads I think :)

Another good thing is the mobo saw no IDE devices connected as I have the IDE dvd drives as first boot and set the SATA drive as first boot device then the HDD.

Neat!
 
I was considering a sata dvd drive but I so rarely use it to write I dont think I'd enjoy the speed increase. It took me a long time to tie back all the cable in my case anyway so I dont think it will make a huge difference.

I'll keep the money for now
 
FrostedNipple said:
i ditched sata when i upgraded my rig, sata is so much cooler than ide, however anyone remember scsi, now that got old quick
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Ditched IDE you mean? :D

SCSI did rock! nothing like some daisy chaining of drives.
 
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