Ive been waiting for these in stock at Newegg today. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=27-151-141
Ive got 10 BenQ's(1640's,1650 and 1655's.But there not SATA.I take it you have this model SH-S183L Samsung to warrant the "It's a piece of $hit" comment.
@paiger: It's not a piece of sh*t. To be honest, there is no real advantage of SATA connections over IDE, when it comes to DVD Drives that is (HDDs are a diff story). I would like you to read this thread for further info. It should put things straight for you. Btw climbhigh, you're headed for a big fall now I just reported you!
@paiger651, i think you might want to look at the Liteon ones. I believed they have a SATA an at pretty much similar price too and they will be way better then the samsung.
I realize theres no real performance gain between IDE AND SATA burners.There are advantage's to be had for me though,the system i just built only has 1 IDE on the motherboard but it has 6 SATA connections. I also like the smaller SATA cables it really helps tidy up the small Dell case i used.This new SAMSUNG is suppose to be the first true SATA drive all the others are converted IDE drive using a SATA bridge.Here's a picture of my system to give you an ideal of the space the smaller cables will save. http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commu...olderid=260782&curRec=1&folderview=thumbs&ck=
Well then I'd say you go for LiteOn or Samsung. They are the best ones, don't go for the Dell ie NEC drives.
I received my order for 5 of these today from Newegg.They came with SATA cables and Nero disc(which i didn't need)not bad for $39.99 free shipping there up to $46.99 now.
