What are BD pc drives using?

[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.

[Marwin]

While many first-generation drives will use IDE, the Philips and BenQ drives should use SATA at least. Also, it's still unclear what the Sony drive will use.

[imgod22222]

No longer a fan boy of intels so i don't remember anything about their line of products anymore. But I have a feeling its like my DFI, and has another chip for SATA1 (150Mb/s). If this is the case, leave either an IDE or SATAI open. If you don't have SATAI on your mobo, then leave open either an IDE or SATAII. But the chip for the SATAII might not be backwards-compatible and support the SATA the drive will use. So in the end, if you have normal SATA (150Mb/s) you're safe. If you don't then I advise getting an IDE cable of your choosing for your new IDE BD drive. (soon to come :P)
Or ya can get a PCI card with SATA plugs and use that but i don't know if that's made or whatever you would prefer. If i get spare time, I'll do a little research on your board and see if I can help you out on that question a bit more.

[phloyd]

I picked up a 4 port SATA card from New Egg for $25 and it works fine.

BTW, PCI has a greater bandwidth than 33 MBps cos it is wider than 8 bits (32 bits wide iirc so 4 bytes per transaction, not one).

Cheers!