Another format goes byebye!

[mrk]

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

 

[Will_3rd]

got rid of my floppy drive a couple of weeks ago, still have an IDE DVD-ROM drive though.

Everything else is SATA.

 

[1337z0r]

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 .

 

[mrk]

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!

 

[J.B]

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]

i ditched sata when i upgraded my rig, sata is so much cooler than ide, however anyone remember scsi, now that got old quick

 

[thefishdude]

i just have the floppy i allways put a floppy in my machines. just incase of bios issues that and allways keep a ps2 keyboard handy. incas eof major problems.

 

[J.B]

i ditched sata when i upgraded my rig, sata is so much cooler than ide, however anyone remember scsi, now that got old quick

Ditched IDE you mean?

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

 

[Cuchulainn]

I'm on an all SATA set-up too. I'm awful at keeping cables tidy in my P180 case - so SATA is a bit of a godsend really

 

[Garyj881]

All sata here.

2 x Sata hdd & 1 x 18 x 18 dvdrw

When i built my system i made sure i didnt duy anything ide

 

[Scythe]

I'm living in the dark age
IDE, Athlon XP
Trying to persuade the parents to help me to upgrade