Serial ATA CD & DVD Burners

[670bird]

I am a bit confused about Serial ATA and standard DVD burners and CD burners. If I buy a serial ATA hard drive do I need to find a burner that matches the serial interface or are the other interfaces compatible??????
Thanks

[tmx468]

The Sata interface is currently only designed for a compatible hard drive (1 per channel). This runs alongside your standard IDE channels, which you can fill to your hearts content with the old CD_RW/DVD Burner/IDE ZIP etc...

[670bird]

Thanks TMX!

[Telexen]

Right now it's pointless to have SATA removeable devices...they're only utilizing UDMA mode 5 with Parallell IDE, and some of the 50x+ CDROMs are shattering CDs they're spinning so fast.