Just bought a Yamaha FireWire CDRW Burner

[Hamburgerpimp]

Yeah, I know I'm bragging and OT is not the best place for it. But, I'm done with IDE burners.

Damn this Yamaha is smoking fast. Hot Swappable, Daisy-Chain branching, 8MB Buffer and rips a 74min Audio CD in 3 minutes! Sh11111111111111111111ttttttttt.

 

[GameQuoter]

wow.

 

[RichieZ]

FireWire sucks, SCSI is where its at. Nice drive tho, I might get the 20/10/40 if plextor doesn't make a 24x scsi verion

 

[Valhalla1]

#include <cookie.h>

 

[HansHurt]

Well.....how much?

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I got it for less than $300. How the heck does Firewire suck?? I didn't have any more bays in my main system so I opted for the firewire. I have no regrets so far.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Will it work with a Sony Ilink?

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

BTW, Nero loves it, as well. Johnny, I don't think so. I don't own a single Sony product.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< FireWire sucks, SCSI is where its at. Nice drive tho, I might get the 20/10/40 if plextor doesn't make a 24x scsi verion >>



For an external drive, I'd much rather have firewire. A firewire card costs little $$$, it's hot swappable, and the cable is small unlike SCSI.

 

[bonkers325]

but remeber this scsi uses less cpu and firewire uhhhh ?

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I don't see a difference between SCSI and Firewire in CPU/System utilization.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< but remeber this scsi uses less cpu and firewire uhhhh ? >>



well, isn't firewire hardware-based just like SCSI?

 

[randomlinh]

well, it's better than USB

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

USB bites balls. Remember when USB was the sh1t??

 

[RichieZ]

Regardless anything is better than IDE for CDR's (except USB), congrats on ur pruchase. The ol 8/20X SCSI Plextor serves me fine, I'd upgrade but then I might loose the ability to copy safedisk2.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I just put in an HP internal IDE for this guy tonight after work. (Yeah, I know, tough!!) He gave me his old Ricoh and $40. Can't beat that. Yeah, USB is not all it's cracked up to be. I guess everything is better than Parallel.

 

[d33pt]

damn my yammy 16x10x40 sucks bigtime.. horrible cpu utilization.. coasters easily.. just plain tired of it.

brian..do you have a firewire pci card or what?