how is the lacie 24X external scsi CDRW?

[zzzz]

Any personal expierences?

 

[Jerboy]

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It's a rebadge Sanyo BP5. It is the only SCSI 24x writer available. It should be an okay recorder. How much does it cost?

 

[zzzz]

does anyone know whether I can flash the firmware to Sanyos?

 

[mooseAndSquirrel]

I had a LaCie external SCSI CDRW drive from 1999-2001 and it never gave me a moment's trouble. I don't recall its specs. Every now and then the OS would lose the drive and I had to reboot to see it again, but I suspect that was more something with my SCSI card. I still have it around the house, but don't use it any more because newer drives beat it at speed.

I just got a Pyro Firewire case that converts any IDE/ATAPI drive to firewire. I'll be putting a Pioneer A03 DVD-RW drive in there and am looking forward to good speed and portability to my laptop (which would require a very expensive PC card SCSI adapter to go the SCSI route). You might want to consider that route if you're already going with an external drive. But if you go SCSI, you should definitely be happy with the low CPU utilization.

 

[zzzz]

Just an update. I got the drive and removed the internal sanyo drive and using it as a internal drive. ( As my scsi card has the external channel shared with internal LVD channel, 29160) It is fast.!

 

[RalfHutter]

Just to clarify - This is an actual SCSI drive and you used a regular 50-pin internal SCSI cable to mount it? Is this the "Sanyo BP5"? Does it say on the internal case?

THe reason I ask is that I've been looking at replacing my Plextor 12x SCSI with the Sanyo 24x BP5 but the best price I've been able to find is $181 from here.

How much did this LaCie cost? Are there deals on them?

 

[zzzz]

Yes, I am using a 50pin cable. Even though it does not say sanyo BP5, it is the same drive. (It looks the same) .
Since lacie is an external drive, it would cost you more than the sanyo if you buy it new. I got it used for $175. I had planned to use it as external as well but didn't as my current scsi card only allows lvd devices on external channel.