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Any CD Burners with more than 2mb buffer?

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ahsia

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I know Mitsumi has them, but they are not available in the US market. What other brands of IDE CD Burners have more than a 2mb buffer?
 
If you get a new burner with "burn proof" technology, you don't have to worry about large buffers.
The problem with older burners was that if the buffer ran dry, you ended up with a coaster as the burner wasn't
able to continue burning where it left off.
Burn proof technology allows the burn to continue where it left off if the buffer runs dry giving you a good copy
even if a buffer under run occurs.
 
I think my 8x4x32 Plextor has 4MB. But if you have a burner that uses the Sanyo's (I think) BURNProof protection, getting a writer with a lot of MB is not worth it.

Edit: posted too late.
 
I still have a Acer 8x4x32 burner that has a 8mb buffer. Most new burners don't need a large buffer because they have Burnproff, Justlink etc.
 
My Acer 10x8x32x also has 4mb cache. But the best would be burnproof (or similar technology) with 2mb cache (all you need if you have burnproof).
 
The AOpen 3248 I just got for $34 from Best Buy has an 8MB buffer (it was packaged as a Buslink 32x12x48, latest firmware flash turned it into an AOpen 3248).

My Yamaha 2100S has 8MB also but it is SCSI.
 
Yeah, the AOpen nee Acer burners come with 8mb still, even though they
also use some variant of burn-proofing. I don't really see the point with burn
proof, but it also can't hurt.

Speaking of SCSI burners, is anyone manufacturer keeping up with the latest
speeds for SCSI burners. After 12x, it seemed the SCSI market for CD burners
kind of dried up (as burn-proof made the IDE burners much less prone to
coaster-i-zation).

In fact, I have some 12x SCSI burners and I am surprised at how well they've
held their value, relative to their IDE counterparts.

Kwad
 
Of cause there is use of a large buffer even on drivers with burnproof.

A large buffer will reduce CPU utilisation as your CPU doesnt have to keep feeding stuff into the buffer every millisecond. It can do it in larger burst, then do something else instead of keep feeding the buffer in small bursts.
 
my ricoh mp7120a has 4mb cache - i've also firmware hacked it into an mp7125a w/ justlink (buffer underrun prevention) - works rather flawlessly...now...
 
I Have Plextor 12x SCSI with 4 mb buffer i think 🙂
And still love it.

Although I have 32x AOPEN, I still love my plextor 🙂
SCSI & Plextor RULES !! 😛
 
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