I have about 10 SONY SATA OPTIARC AD-7200S dvd drives that i have purchased from a wholesaler (same business/branch) over several purchases over months, and I am having problems with all of them being extremely sluggish in any computer I build no matter what other equipment I use the drives will cause the pc its in to run like a dinosaur, opening my computer would mean "not responding" much of the time any any pc i build with these drives in them. They can read disc's but the drives are so sluggish its beyond reasonable. I got one thats sluggish and nero burning rom cant even verify disks with the drive, even though it can burn discs.. I ended up sticking in an ancient drive an use that instead of all these brand new ones because i wanted to verify the discs i was burning. I actually go and buy SATA drives from reatailers i have so little faith in the ones i buy myself, they seem to work fine. Its all a big mystery as to why 100% of these drives are faulty (one was a DOA, the other nine are so sluggish you kinda end up installing another totally seperate brand, old spare drive just to get the job done. Its weird but i am so frustrated with it all, i am scared to RA them all because the RA deparetment probobly has never heard of anything like this, wouldn't want to hear of this and would probobly test the drive for 2 minutes with a disk and not see the sluggishness. So my question is - can sata drives just be plugged into the system like harddrives, or am i missing something relating to the configuration, either in bios, or special drivers??
Do all the systems use the same motherboard, as could be a compatibility issue, unlikely but possible. Could also be a batch with a defective component, try it on a system you haven't built to see if it has the same effect. I don't believe you have to setup anything extra in the BIOS or elsewhere (drivers) to get the drives working.
