Burn-Proof -- How much of an issue is it ?

[Ender78]

I am planning on outfitting my new machine with the Plextor 16x. How much of an issue are these Burn-Proof gaps. Anyone have a good link that talks about the dangers or problems that can result as a result of this. I burn mainly for myself. On a decent system (1 Gig Thunderbird) am I likely to experience any problems (I do not intend to play Quake while burning). I currently have the Yamaha 4260 and its starting to die on me, making more coasters than usual (and this is without any applications running on the machine whatsover).

 

[NeelyMSU]

I am at the same cross road as you. I have a Yamaha 4416S and she is on her last leg. I am looking at the Plextor 16X. My Yamaha is SCSI, so I am a little unsure about going to an IDE burner. I have a decent machine. P3-450@558 with 256MB ram running Windows XP. Good luck with your buy. Check out www.mwave.com they have the plextor for $235.

www.mave.com

 

[Ender78]

My Yammy is Scuzzy as well. She's been through quite a bit (1000-1500) burns.
Anyone know how to check this exactly 🙂 I also have a Pioneer 6x DVD drive which I intend to migrate to the new system, how much of an issue would burning form SCSI to IDE be. I think part of my problem may be that I am burning from an IDE hard drive to a SCSI device. Is this an issue ?

 

[Sundog]

I don't think it will be an issue if your burner has burn-proof. If not shut down all other aps./virus/screen saver.

 

[madthumbs]

I just got the Plextor 161040a. I've burned at 16x while encoding a divx ;-), while printing and using Paint Shop Pro, while extracting 6x dvd, haven't hit a buffer under run yet. I used to have a 4x4x24 also, again never saw a buffer under run, but it was a Creative drive and it found more "creative" ways to make coasters. -creative is suck!