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Re: [ARSCLIST] CD burner
Second for Plextor! I've burned hundreds, maybe thousands of CDR's on the 12X Plextor drive and the
same amount on the Plextor Pro drive in the studio. And by now hundreds of DVD's and CD's on the
firewire Plextor 16xDVD/48xCD drive. Never had a coaster, never had a customer complaint, never made
an audio disc that won't play in the car (my acid-test).
I see Plextor still makes CDRW drives:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_cdrw_drives.html
They still make the firewire DVD burner I have:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/716uf.htm
and the internal IDE version is substantially less costly.
and they make a SATA version too:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/716SA.htm
That'll be like the firewire in that there just won't be data slowdowns like can happen on an IDE
buss.
Plextor is the best I've ever dealt with as far as being able to burn hundreds and hundreds of discs
and not breaking down (yet). That 12x CDRW drive is going on 5 years old now.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD burner
Steven Smolian wrote:
I suddenly have to replace my internal CD burner (computer internal, not human). I expect to
burn CDs and MP3s, as the latter is what folks are asking me for who are posting what I give them
to the net. What is the consensus?
And what, sir, makes you think there will be a consensus?
<VBG>
I'm not at all sure that quality drives without DVD write capability are still being produced. I
am told by knowledgable people - those who measure performance - that the Plextor 8x writers
delivered the highest quality most consistently. The falloff to the Plextor 12x was slight and in
the real world buffer underrun protection, unavailable on the 8x machines, is on the 12x. If my
workhorse 1210s ever fails, another is waiting - and I have an 8x tucked away just in case.
Most combination units are optimized to write DVDs and while many are competent to write CDs they
do not deliver the low error rates of drives without DVD capability. Limiting write speed to 12x
or 16x is recommended in any case to keep error rates low. All quality media I've tested seem
optimized in that range and produce excellent results at 12x. Drives rated to write at 32x and
above are unlikely to write well at such slow speeds.
Plextor has had refurbished drives available from their site, but often you'll find one eBay store
better stocked than they are. I'm afraid that the odds on finding an unused drive rated for less
than 24x max speed are not very good.
Mike
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