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Hot!...12X10X32 Burner for $94

Lukewarm. Do a priceline search for 12x10x3 burners. You'll see plenty at that price. In fact, you can get a Liteon with burnproof confirmed at that price.
 
One year ago (May 2000) I bought a Plextor 8/4/32 (pre-burnproof, too) for $200, which was a hot deal at the time.

Oh well.
 


<< Here is the review I found. It seems like it has no burnproof technology. Also, it is not that good on the review. >>



Justlink is almost as good. In fact, technically it's a little better. Support is growing for it as well. How can you say the review isn't good? Looks like it was a great review except for the tray being loud. Drive's probably pretty good and probably no worse than the Liteon. Personally, I'd rather have the NEC.
 
If you guys want a good drive go to mwave.com and get the acer 1208a it's 12/8/32 but has a version of burnproof, that can't be turned off but is still useable by the newer versions of clonecd, BUT the big advantage to this drive is that it can burn SD2 backups without a hiccup and the backups can be used in any drive. The drive there is $109+6sh which is fairly cheap for a drive that can burn SD2 reliably. If anyone wants a list of burners that can burner SD2 backups, mainly only philips and acer drives, take a look
 


<< The drive there is $109+6sh which is fairly cheap for a drive ]that can burn SD2 reliablyIf anyone wants a list of burners that can burner SD2 backups, mainly only philips and acer drives, take a look >>




What do u mean by sd2 reliably..what is sd2..

Thanks
 
I have a Ricoh 4/4/20 drive from a long time ago. no burn-proof on that one, but it doesn't matter unless you try to do things on your computer WHILE you are burning a cd. I usually just set up a burn and go to sleep, so I can take it out the next morning, so it's not really a necessity. besides, each cd is gonna take what, a max of 7-8 mins recorded at 8x? You mean you can't go out of your room and grab a bite to eat and drink for 10 mins? 😛

 
SD2 is a software protection being placed upon newer games. There are only a few titles out there that currently have this protection, about 12 or so, but more are on the way. These games include, American McGee's Alice, Hitman Code 47, Red alert Command and Conquer 2, and a few others. The big problem is that plextor and a few other manufacturers are &quot;selling out&quot; so to speak. One of the problems with SD2 is that even though CloneCD and other software claim to be a 1 to 1 copy, which for all intents they do just that, the BURNER itself must do a scramble on the bad sectors before burning any data to prevent bit sychronization because household burners can not do an unassigned bit very well. What SD2 does is force a bit sycronization when the bad sectors are scrambled. The only burners out there that don't scramble the bits around are acer, philips, and a couple plextor drives. With the plextor drives though the problem lies in the firmware. Any firmware update after 1.04 forces the drive to scramble the data while earlier firmware updates don't. Also to prevent people from using the older firmware with newer drives the eeprom for the firmware has changed. 1.04 and older firmware is 530kb while newer firmware is 440K. With newer drives having only 440kb available, using older firmware is practically impossible. If you want to learn more go to Game Copy World and read a bit more about safe disk version 2 software protection. You can also look on the Clone CD clinic site (forgot the address since it's at home) and search the forums there.
 


<< I have a Ricoh 4/4/20 drive from a long time ago. no burn-proof on that one, but it doesn't matter unless you try to do things on your computer WHILE you are burning a cd. I usually just set up a burn and go to sleep, so I can take it out the next morning, so it's not really a necessity. >>



That's the difference! Burnproof technology allows you to perform other tasks with you PC WHILE you are bruning a CD. If you burn the James Bond series movies with your Ricoh 4/4/20, I am afraid you'll need a WHOLE month since you usually just set up a burn and go to sleep and take it out the next morning. 😉
 


<< SD2 is a software protection being placed upon newer games. There are only a few titles out there that currently have this protection, about 12 or so, but more are on the way. These games include, American McGee's Alice, Hitman Code 47, Red alert Command and Conquer 2, and a few others. The big problem is that plextor and a few other manufacturers are &quot;selling out&quot; so to speak. One of the problems with SD2 is that even though CloneCD and other software claim to be a 1 to 1 copy, which for all intents they do just that, the BURNER itself must do a scramble on the bad sectors before burning any data to prevent bit sychronization because household burners can not do an unassigned bit very well. What SD2 does is force a bit sycronization when the bad sectors are scrambled. The only burners out there that don't scramble the bits around are acer, philips, and a couple plextor drives. With the plextor drives though the problem lies in the firmware. Any firmware update after 1.04 forces the drive to scramble the data while earlier firmware updates don't. Also to prevent people from using the older firmware with newer drives the eeprom for the firmware has changed. 1.04 and older firmware is 530kb while newer firmware is 440K. With newer drives having only 440kb available, using older firmware is practically impossible. If you want to learn more go to Game Copy World and read a bit more about safe disk version 2 software protection. You can also look on the Clone CD clinic site (forgot the address since it's at home) and search the forums there. >>



From what I recall, the Plextor drive itself doing the rip can read its own SD2 copy (even with newer firmware) but other drives can't read the copy. I wonder if an sd2 clonecd rip is done on one plextor, if it can be read on another. In any event, for that reason alone, if I had been aware of the SD2 issue, I would ave maybe gotten a different drive. But for $99.99 for an Iomega/Plexy, it's worth it I guess.
 
I just read the review from the link you put up and it seems Just Link did a awesome job prevented the dreaded buffer under run. $94 for this drive with Nero sounds like a great buy to me.
 
Ooops . . .

ignore

Actually, save a cool dime here at the mcglen.com site (sister to accessmicro).

link

Sorry for the stupid post, but I messed up my initial post, so I thought I shouldn't let this space go to waste.
 
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