SATA optical drives

[David Fletcher]

I'm currently running FC5, will probably upgrade to F7 in a couple of months.

Unfortunately my CD/DVD rewriter appears to have died, before it's 
even seen a dual layer disk :'(

SATA hard drives run without problems for me, but now that SATA 
optical drives are starting to appear in the shops, would it be OK to 
buy one of these and get rid of another wide ribbon cable?

Is anybody already running them with Fedora?

Thanks for any advice/experiences.

Dave F