Question about IDE & Parallel ATA

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  1. joeg112

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    I am about to buy a Samsung - 20x Internal DVD±RW/CD-RW Super Multi Drive Model: SH-S202N

    And before i do so, I was wondering about the interface. My current (old crappy burner) has E-IDE/ATAPI, MMC compliant

    and the Samsung has for Interface: Parallel ATA

    Does this mean that It connects differently in my PC. I know my PC is about 7 years old and does not have SATA capabilites.


    So basically my current burner has IDE INTERNAL on the box and this new SAMSUNG BURNER says parallel ATA.
     
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    Is ATAPI the same as Parallel ATA?? If yes then my question is answered. I am googling but cant find clear answers.
     
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    Don't you just love PC's :)

    yeah, it's all just the same thing really, Parallel ATA is the same as ATAPI, same as IDE and E-IDE/EIDE

    ..it's all old-fashioned speak for the speeds of the ATA connections, for example - http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ATA.html
    http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci213789,00.html

    Also there's Ultra ATA/133, which increases the top transfer rate an extra 1/3 over the Ultra ATA/100 specification, able to transfer 133 MegaBytes per second instead of 100 MegaBytes per second

    ..blah blah blah :)
     
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    i found that out since my burner arrived in just 2 days :) BUT i had some difficult installing but figured out the problem ( i had to move the master to the slave or something like that.

    ALSO i ordered from NEWEGG and it only gave me the burner. Nothing else, No manual, No wires, screws, not even a box. AND the damn thing doesnt have SAMSUNG on it. What kinda crap is this? Im not ordering from NEWEGG no more if they make there own stuff and sell it as something else. It looks refurbished.
     
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    It's not NewEgg's fault, you ordered an OEM drive and that is all it comes as hence the $5-$10 price difference over retail. If you'd purchased a drive (retail) you would have recieved the drive in a retail box with all the goodies instead of a bare drive wrapped in bubble wrap. NewEgg is a top notch company and they don't rebadge or rebrand products and the refurbished items should be clearly marked "refurbished" or "open box" in the item description.
     
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