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SATA VS PATA Optical Drives
Currently, I have 3 optical drives installed in my primary rig, and never paid too much attention, until now, because I have been doing a lot of work with all 3. The PATA is a Samsung SH-S202N, and the SATA are both LGs. All 3 seem to perform about the same, once a disk is actually running, but the Samsung consistently takes a lot longer for Windows to see, and frequently I have to run it more than once to get that to happen at all.
It is as though the signal coming from the Samsung is weaker than the LGs, and I'm wondering if this is due to brand quality, or is simply a trait of all PATAs, compared to SATAs? It is not as though I haven't had experience with other PATAs before, but I just didn't pay much attention, until now.