How about this Sony Firewire burner?

[SharkB8]

Does anyone have any experience with this Sony burner. I have a Sony Vaio laptop and I do like the Firewire interface. Any links to reviews would be very cool. I have searched but didn't find any.

 

[EBM]

I use the 12x version of this drive on my Mac G4. Good, fast drive. No coasters yet. I don't have any firewire ports on my pc to test it there. The drive itself is pretty bulky. If you are going to be lugging this drive around, you might want to look for something a little more compact.

 

[EBM]

sorry, double post

 

[jamesbond007]

Yeah, I have a friend with the 12x drive too. It's heavier than my Dell Inspiron 8000! LOL. I think my laptop is ~10lbs, too!

It's heavy, but it has power.

 

[SharkB8]

What program does is it come with for burning software? I can't tell looking at the specs. I suppose that I am no lucky enough that is is supported by Nero? It says something about coming with "B Recorder Gold"??

 

[Mday]

that is one ugly drive. sorry to annoy ya... that is one ugly drive...

anyway, DAMN YOU. i want a firewire burner =P

i would email ahead and ask if nero supports the burner.

 

[SharkB8]

I am actually inquiring about this for a friend and am a little inept where Firewire/USB is concerned. Could anyone enlighten me a little? MDay, is Firewire superior? And yeah, you are right it is ugly but fast for this type of interface by all I can tell.

 

[kyamaguchi]

Firewire is much faster (more bandwidth) than USB 1.0, but...in the near future, USB 2.0 will probably become standard on most Intel products (since they really don't want to have to pay Apple for the licensing fees on the Firewire (IEEE 1394) interface), and that will offer similar performance.

 

[nagger]

Performance wise Firewire kicks USB's butt every day of the week and twice on sunday...

Not even USB 2.0 can reach the playing level of Firewire.

The main problem with USB is that it needs a set of instructions from inside the CPU for it to work (Intel patents anyone?).

Its because of this that sometime when u connect a USB scanner sometimes the computers freeze. If u try to connect the same scanner in firewire to the same PC u cannot see any freezing or loss of speed.

I've tried it with an Expression 1600 a few months ago and with Firewire u simply don't have to wait for the results to appear on screen.

 

[corkyg]

I have Firewire in all three of my systems, and have 2 QueFire! burners . . . not butt ugly either.

One system has a combo Firewire and USB controller card (OrangeMicro) so it is ready for the possibility that someone might actually put USB 2 devices in the stores.

By the time that occurs, we will have Firewire 2 or b, and that will double the speed to 800 and further bury USB 2. The hype from the "reviewers," Intel and M$ is all aimed at making USB a standard . . . but the de facto situation is that Firewire is real, present for duty, and a joy to use. It is the easiest PnP thing I have ever used and unlike USB, it does not lose contact when a device goes to "sleep."

The hype on USB 2 is starting to remind me of Iomega's stupid Zip drive. Hype made it the standard, but the LS-120 ate it for lunch in performance and capability - and still does. But it lost the popularity contest.

The problem with laptop Firewire ports is they are usually 4-wire = no power transfer. That means a burner has to have its own brick or built in P/S. I have that on my laptop and it has one of the Que burners . . . but that never goes anywhere. I have never had occasion to burn while travelling. I am strickly in a play mode then . . . in every respect.

 

[jamesbond007]

What program does is it come with for burning software?

I think it's called "Ab CD", something like that. It's cheesy software, it's written by Sony themselves, but it gets the job done.

 

[ashneel]

how is the sony case ugly?

this one is mother of all has my tdk 24x.

it even has a fan to go with it.
really nice touch.