2 DVD Burner or 1 and a CD Burner & what about SATA

Why are you listening to other people? Everyone will have a different opinion on this topic. Decide what YOU need, and go with that.

DVD drives are backwards compatible with CD's. Ask yourself how you would feel if you put all your eggs in 1 basket (Combo drive), and it fails one Friday night? If you have one DVD and one CD, at least you can keep going.

If you can afford it, and need continuity, go for 2 combos/DVD's

Good Luck

I told you everyone has a different opinion!

But hey - if you combine what I said with what bacis said, then you will be OK.

I don't know of any SATA optical drives, just IDE type, and external USB 2.0 type!

What SATA drives do you mean mcparty? HDD drives?

As I said, I have never hears of any Optical SATA drives! :?

heres some from newegg link
plus heres a article http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/07/ [...] vd_burner/

I have a Plextor 716SA sata dvd burner and never had any problems with it, had it for close to a year and it has been well used. As for deciding what to go with for two drives simply look at the read speed in the drives specs, many dvd burners will read a dvd disc just as fast as a dvd-rom. Compare a dvd-rom drives read speed for the various types of discs then compare them to a dvd burners read speeds and decide for yourself, I personaly would go with two dvd burners since the difference in cost between a good dvd burner and a good dvd-rom drive isnt that much more. Like I said compare the read speed specs between a dvd-rom and a dvd burner.