I replaced it with a shiny new Pioneer DVD burner - which is SATA!<BR><BR>Of course, I just discovered tonight that I can't boot from this drive by setting the usual CDROM boot priority in BIOS.< ...

I need to get a new DVD drive for one of my machines, and I'd like to know if I would be able to boot from a SATA DVD drive on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. I know that it can boot from SATA ...

The Plextor PX-810SA DVD Super Multi Drive is a great performing CD/DVD burner. Its SATA connection opens up bandwidth to allow greater data throughput than EIDE/ATA. It doesn't support HD burning ...

Revision 3.3 offered users greater choice and flexibility, with staggered startup options and an activity indicator, as well as improved data center maintenance and hard drive disc space.

I have to admit that when I received the eSAU108 External DVD Drive from Lite-On ... never going to be as fast as an internal drive that used a SATA interface. But what does the slower speeds ...

Blu-ray drives, especially drives that can both read and write, usually cost significantly more than DVD drives ... connect it with a SATA cable. I wanted an external drive that connects via ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space ...

SATA M.2 drives tend to be far more affordable ... Gordon Mah Ung On top is the stock DVD drive. You’ll need to unscrew the two screws on the metal bracket and move it to the hard drive caddy ...

Use your 2.5" / 3.5" SATA I / II / III as an additional external hard drive.This USB3.0 to SATA adapter supports up to 18TB hard drive. High speed USB 3.0 specification and backward compatible ...

Well, that’s not entirely true, there’s still a niche of notebooks out there that carry a DVD drive, but they’re ... like the decidedly iffy-sounding SATA cable design.

MSI's XA52P for example, reads DVD-ROM discs at 16x ... MSI has limited the support of the drive to Intel chipset based motherboards with native SATA interfaces (ICH5 and ICH6) only.

Removing the DVD drive turns out to be fairly simple on many laptops. On my Dell it was four screws and a gentle pull -- to disengage the SATA connector embedded in the end of the drive.