12x10x32 CDRW for 150 no rebates involved

[busmaster11]

Sorry if someone's already covered this, but take a looksie at this cute little number I found from mwave.com. Free 10 pack CDRs too!

http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/A11340.html

Specs look like its a rebadged Plextor, as I doubt Aopen makes their own, but it has a 4 meg buffer. My Iomega/Plextor's only got two. Retail box too. Gotta ask about the Burnproof though. Combine that with their 99$ Pioneer DVD-115S slot loading 16x DVD drive and you got a monster combo IMHO.

-Steve

 

[M O M O]

Yeah. this one doesnt fall in the rebagged plextor group..

 

[VisionsUCI]

Here is the Link

Let me know if this one is any good. Is burnproof really that important when the drive already burns at 12x? Opinions?

 

[Danzilla]

Yes burnproof is important, especially if it's a faster (12x) drive. A faster CD-RW means data is being transfered and written faster (duh). When you have a buffer under-run, it's because your system isn't able to keep a steady flow of data to the burner and on normal CD burners the disc is wasted. Burnproof ability prevents bad burns by being able to resume writing to a CD once the data is moving again. At least, that's what I got from reading about it.

D.

 

[unhuman]

BurnProof SchmurnProof. I have an LG Electronics 12x drive. It has an 8mb buffer. No coasters at 12x burning CD-to-CD on the same IDE channel.

-H

 

[Hawk]

What CDROM do you have? It's pretty hard keeping up with a 12x burner.

 

[daveybrat]

Hawk, i can burn at 16x on the fly with my cdrom, which is a 56x Afreey, which in my opinion are one of the best cdrom drives you can buy, very fast and excellent at ripping audio DAE.

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Try to get the drive with the Justlink the aopen drive. It's supposedly better than burnproof.

 

[Schmo]

Try running Prime95 or something else relatively intensive and do a CD to CD on the fly copy with that non-burn proof drive at 12x and see what happens.

Now granted, you don't do that very often but if I run the compiler in DevStudio and burn a CD at the same time, I guarantee you that I will depleat that 8MB buffer!

 

[heinousd]

I'm new to this stuff...I am looking at the drive and it says 'AOPEN' what does that mean if anything.

 

[Hawk]

That's the brand, kinda like Nike on shoes. =)