Which is better UsB 3.0 or Sata 3 for Blu ray burner or Blu ray drive?

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SBMfromLA

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I could be wrong... but when I last checked... internal optical drives were only made for SATA interfaces.

....and if you went for external...
I have seen for externals... eSata, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0


In terms of speed:

USB 3.0 drive averaged 90 MBps, while the eSATA drive came in at 75 MBps. When it came to writing to the disk eSATA still processed data at 75 MBps while the USB drive dropped to 62 MBps

One last thing... having a superfast optical drive is great for reading... but NOT for burning.. many people will tell you that when you burn an optical disk at it's fastest speed.. you can sometimes get errors... and a lot of people recommend burning disks at their slowest speed.
 
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PassMark

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Optical drives connected via USB would still be using SATA internally.

Typically the external drive enclosures have a USB <===> SATA bridge chip in them. So SATA3 should be quicker in all circumstances, as it avoids a protocol conversion. Plus even today some machines tend to have problems with USB3.

Like this one
http://www.jmicron.com/PDF/brief/jms567.pdf

USB only makes sense when you need the external drive to be portable, or if no SATA ports are available.
 
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PapaWood

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Read speed would be how fast it can read information from a CD/DVD/ect.

Write speed is how fast it could take the data and place it into the CD/DVD/ect.
 
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