SATA DVD Burners To Replace ATAPI Soon
Comment | Print | Email to a Friend | Font Size: AAIt's certainly taken a hell'a long time for it to happen but we may well finally see the end of IDE DVD Burners by the 2nd half of next year, as DigiTimes reports.
Although advanced technology attachment packet interface (ATAPI) is the mainstream interface standard for optical disc drives (ODDs) currently, serial ATA (SATA) stands a chance of replacing the former in the second half of 2007, according to sources in Taiwan's ODD manufacturing industry.
SATA has been adopted for several DVD-burner models, such as the Sony AW-Q160S, Asustek DRW-1814BLT and DVD-E616A3T, the sources indicated. Samsung, Pioneer and the Taiwan-based Lite-On IT and BenQ will launch SATA DVD burners this quarter, the sources noted.
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