White SATA dvd-rom : did they even exist?

massaker · Jan 2, 2025

Ruru said:
Can't remember when the first SATA dvd-drives hit the market, I just have a memory that it would be in early 2007-ish

I bought my Plextor PX-712SA in June or July 2004, an MSI XA52P was also available, so i would rather say: SATA DVD-burner were already a thing in late 2004-ish.

Wirko · Jan 2, 2025

FreedomEclipse said:
$98 for a refurbed unit is such a scam.

But can £20 be considered a fair price?

I have a beige SATA model that says "TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F ATA Device" in the device manager. TSST was Toshiba-Samsung. Bought it used for 4 EUR around 2016 but some persistence and luck were necessary to find one at all. The colour is contagious: over the years, the power and reset buttons on the white PC case have become beige too and they now closely match the DVD writer, so I can say this was by design.

FreedomEclipse · Jan 2, 2025

Wirko said:
But can £20 be considered a fair price?

I would. I think the ones I bought back in the day cost around the same money brand new. So I would say it's fair based on the fact that they haven't taken into account inflation and that its quite a niche product these days. There aint that many beige drives around or people buying them. You wouldn't be buying one of these unless you wanted it for a retro project so its basically a collectors item.

You can still buy slimline external optical drives on Amazon or ebay for the same money or less

kilo · Jan 19, 2025

I was digging through stuff and came across this beige or "white" optical drive. While it is only a cd drive, if you notice the year of manufacture is well after dvd's became popular. It's possible there may be a DVD version out there, as beige was well on its way out by 2003.

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