Burn Proof or 4MB Buffer, which one is better for CDRW?

[feb]

Disregard the "sale price". Both drives below refer to EIDE drive.

Does the 12x10x32x with Burn Proof but only 1.8MB buffer Iomega more reliable than Yamaha 8x4x24X with 4MB Buffer?

Some say that the Burn Proof is an overrated marketing lingo.
Of course burn proof have some use, but does the benefit outweight the 4MB Buffer offered by Yamaha?

I already got Yamaha8424EX installed, got an Iomega which I haven't opened yet. Plan to sell the Yamaha, replace it with Iomega when I pull the Yamaha out.

Should I bother to upgrade? I only do occassion back up but I sometimes obsessed with "deals" so I wasted 5 days time and eventually got an Iomega (though my 5 days time could worth far more than a decent notebook if I use the time instead in job search and get a job a week sooner).

Or, am I fooling myself to sell the Yamaha 8x4x24x and replace it with Iomega and have to deal with their rebate which they may go out of business and not honoring it (NOT a FACT don't take my words, just a possibility, we never know, like Bradless, Office Depot, Sears, etc. closing some door). (I did lost $50 rebate from Iomega's competitor Avartar's Shark drive that they were folded 2.5 years ago and I paid $130 for a 250MB shark drive :-( )

From other's posting, I know Yamaha 8424EZ is CloneCd compatible.

Any comment? Burn proof is better or 4MB is better (if I don't care about the speed that much)?

 

[Vinny N]

You already have a Yamaha 8x4x32x drive that works fine?

You're only shaving off 3 minutes or so of burn time.

If I had an 8x burner that worked without problems, I wouldn't want the hassle of trying out a new cd-r/rw drive no matter how reliable people say it is

 

[dcdomain]

True that... but if you have money to throw around, and you MUST get a burner, then go for one with burn-proof. Because, even with 4mb or 8mb of ram, depending on what you do, you might still run out of memory and make a coaster. Having burn-proof basically guarantees that you don't produce a coaster.

So... go with the burn-proof.

 

[Renob]

I say burn proof is the way to go

 

[John]

<-- Plextor zealot From the reviews I have read on the 16x Yamaha w/ 8MB buffer it is not impressive. Even with an 8MB buffer you will run it dry if you do a lot of multi-tasking.

 

[nippyjun]

I agree that burnproof is the way to go. Buffer size isn't really important anymore with burnproof.

 

[feb]

Thank you for all the response.

I can live with leaving the computer alone when I burn the CD back-ups (8 mins/month is not much).

However, it would be nice say if I could keep browsing the Internet when I burn teh CD. Well, multitasking, not that much but I normally open at least 4-6 browsers windows to visit different web site. Some will load faster, some slower. So I can browse the one that is loaded while waiting for others to load.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Burn proof is nice ... and all of the IDE burn proof drives only have the 1.8mb buffer ... (some say 2mb)

if you really like your 4mb .. then think about investing in a plextor scsi 12/10/32 .. they are quite expensive ... but they give you the best of all worlds (scsi, 4mb buffer, burn proof) ...

Your 8x yamaha drive should be good i would think .. unless you make too many coasters ....

burn proof will make less coasters then bigger buffer ...

and iomega drive is remarked plextor ... which is a good thing.

 

[AngelOfDeath]

Burn Proof is better. Why?...The BP-tech makes it possible for people like me without SCSI to copy a CD on the fly in max speed. It's understandable that even an 8mb buffer might run dry fast since at 16x it will take like 3.5sec to empty the buffer.

AoD

 

[AMB]

DVD-R is the way to go

I have a 4Mb buffer with my Plextor 8/4/32A, I have only had one coaster.