What are BD pc drives using?

[Plan B]

Hi, this is my first post, however I have a question perhaps someone can answer for me. When BD drives for pc's bcome more wide spread, what interface will they be using, IDE or SATA? I'm in the process of building a new pc and want to know if should leave one of the four 300mbs SATA connectors open for future upgrading to BD? Thanks in advance.

[georgir]

both interfaces can be used, the choice is up to the manufacturer.
i think the first ones announced were ide though. optical drives are sticking to it for now.
of course there will be more "exceptions" than with dvd drives this time, as sata is getting popular and boards with more than 6 ports become common.
i think you shouldn't worry about the lack of ports yet - an ide drive should still be easy to find, and if not, a pci sata controller will still solve your problem

[imgod22222]

Hold on... Isn't PCI's bandwith something like 33Mb/s? And isn't IDE's 100mb/s? Then SATA being 150mb/s? So if all those above transfers speeds are right (which i'm sure SOMEONE will find something wrong because I'm not completely sure of PCI or IDE myself) wouldn't having a PCI to IDE be a bottleneck on the burner and the burner require underrun protection? Because from the thread I started, the info I got from an ADMIN (so this must be true) is that 1x on a BD burner will be 36mb/s, and first generation will be 2x. And also from an admin i heard they'd have 12x burners by 2007, so that would be a speed of 432mb/s. But then again, SATAII can only transfer at 300mb/s (right?) so would it need 2 data connectors and be a pain to connect to your computer if you rely on air cooling, and then 3 cords just to one device would cut off airflow. Especially if tthey make the first generation IDE, that better come with a rounded cable about the same size as an SATA cable because the IDE ribbion wire will just get in the way of all other system components.
If anyone can correct me on the data rates of these interfaces, please tell me so i can re-correct my theory.
Wait... Can anyone also tell me the average sustained data rate for any of those interfaces?

[Marwin]

That's not what I said, I said expect at least 4x in 2007 and 12x as the potential maximum speed sometime in the future (no time specified). When exactly they plan to come out with 6x, 8x and 12x drives I have no idea as there's been no public statements made about this yet (too early for that).

Also, just because I'm an admin at the forum doesn't mean I can't be wrong about things, so don't take what I say as a universal truth without questioning it. Things could change and what I've read/heard doesn't necessarily always become true.

[imgod22222]

Plan B, what mobo do u have? (Curious to know, though this may be totally irrelevant)

[Plan B]

Originally Posted by imgod22222

Plan B, what mobo do u have? (Curious to know, though this may be totally irrelevant)

I'm using the intel D945Pvs. I've got 3 hard drives, 2 two running raid 0. I'm in the middle of creating the pilot for a cartoon, in HD of course, and I'm afraid of using my last SATA port on the mobo for a fourth hard drive. I'm presonally hoping they start using the SATA ports.