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Ide to Sata DVD
For some reason, my computer eats up internal DVD burners.
The computer a HP with XP and IDE.
Been buying used burners at $20 a shot.
I'm not burning an excessive amount of DVD's (maybe 3-4 a week), however I generally at least load up one DVD a day to grab a file.
The old IDE DVD burners only offered the DL at 2.4x. The 8.5x discs hit the market in 2010, however may still be used for 2.4 despite their price.
The new Sata's burn DL's at 8.5x.
I bought a SATA for $26 to-the-door (cost me $20 in gas to make the roundtrip to the store).
The problem now (and question) is that I need a controller card (PCI) (don't like the idea of those adapters for internal and long term use.
There are a variety of controller cards (varying prices with the higher prices offering RAID options, which I'll certainly (bad word for a computer user) never use) , some even specify different Stat-pin-counts.
Aren't the pin counts standard?
1) Controller card
2) sata cable and power supply (IDE) adapter.
Anybody have a clue?
The DVD docs and the supplement that I downloaded don't offer the pin counts and the damned things are quite small to count.
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Best Don
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