SATA DVD Writer or SATA HDD ?

[din]

This may sound strange as both are different, I mean one for storage and other for burning DVDs.

Anyway, situation is like this.

My new MB has only 1 IDE port, rest- SATA. And I have 2 IDE HDD and 1 IDE DVD writer now. I connected 2 HDD to MB and DVD writer is not connected now.

Which will be a wise decision ?

1. Buy a SATA HDD, so present PC will have 1 SATA HDD, 1 IDE HDD and DVD writer, and I can use the other HDD in another PC.

2. Buy a SATA DVD Writer, so present PC will have 2 IDE HDD (as it is now) plus a SATA DVD writer and I can use the present DVD writer in another PC.

One more question (important lol) - SATA DVD writers exist ? Do they cost more ?

Please suggest. Basically I need 2 HDD in PC and one DVD writer - all connected.

[desiibond]

buy one sata dvd writer

connecting hdd and dvd writer to same bus will degrade performance of both of them.

So, have two IDE HDD's and one sata writer.

[din]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I see SATA DVD writers exist and cost does not vary much. Just thought of something else (cost is high, so I may not go for it, but just a thought)

Option 3 - Buy a USB DVD Writer to solve this plus I can use that to take data backup from my laptop (laptop is slightly old and do not have in-built DVD writer)

[desiibond]

sata DVD writers are widely available and they do not cost more.

[din]

OK, so I guess it is better to go for writer ? Prices are like 1.2 K etc too I think ? Thats good then.

USB ones cost more than 4.5 K I think, hmm not going for that now.