I was curious as to the ability of making an external sata dvd burner wireless, with 3 ground wires and 4 data lines, would it be possible to pass the data seemlessly through say an xbee or bluetooth? I was looking at some internal burners that I would like to use as external as I’m already doing that with an older pata to usb adapter, but would like to get a sata version and adapter or possibly make it wireless. Thanks for any thoughts and ideas.
~Corry
hmm, let's compare the data rate of SATA, 3 gigabits/sec, that's 3,000 megabits/sec (Mbps)chaskins21:
I was curious as to the ability of making an external sata dvd burner wireless, with 3 ground wires and 4 data lines, would it be possible to pass the data seemlessly through say an xbee or bluetooth? I was looking at some internal burners that I would like to use as external as I’m already doing that with an older pata to usb adapter, but would like to get a sata version and adapter or possibly make it wireless. Thanks for any thoughts and ideas.~Corry
XBee IEEE 802.15.4 = 0.250 Mbps
Bluetooth, slower yet
There is USB wireless, a marketing flop, and not fast enough for disks via USB 2.0.
So, no can do wireless disks or DVDs
Maybe something like an Iomega Iconnect will work. It looks like it takes USB2 drives and put them on either a wired or wireless Ethernet interface. Only $100.
You haven’t mentioned which device host the SATA burner, and what is supposed to feed the data. If they are pc’s, can’t you just set up some sort of filesharing over wireless/wifi link?