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Looking at certain Plextor CD-RW SCSI Burner... Got ?'s

the one listed at gogocity is the IDE model....look at the last tid bit of info

<< Package includes:
* CD-RW Drive 12x10x32 Plextor Int. IDE/Atapi
* CD with Adpatec's recording software >>




the buy.com link is the scsi drive....
 
UGH then why does it say SCSI on the top?
I get this on the shopping cart:


<< PLEXTOR 12X/10X/32X SCSI INTCD-RW (DRIVE ONLY) W/SW(SFT0033) >>



I'm going to get it and if it ends up IDE I'll return it.
 
I need to know what kind of SCSI card to get with it... mine is Fast SCSI-2 and I don't know if this will support my new cd-burner.
 
Most SCSI cards will do. At 1.8 meg a second hardly any SCSI cards bandwidth will be under any strain at all.

Adaptec would seem to be the tried and tested models but they are hellish expensive. Tekram are as good IMO and are far cheaper.

😉
 
I have the Plextor SCSI BurnProof and disappointed when I read the review Maximum PC did. Plextor SCSI Burnproof got spanked by their little IDE brother.
 
Many options available to run a SCSI burner. When I got a SCSI burner, I bought a card that left me an upgrade path for hard drives (Tekram DC-390U2W .. $127 here). But this is more card than u need. Tekram also makes the DC-390 series .. and the .. DC-390/315 series. But I'm not very familar w/ anything but the DC-390U2W .. but I know you want a card with a *BIOS* .. which makes SCSI easier to install/config .. and a BIOS also lets you boot from your SCSI device.

I'm sure some here know which Adaptec options would work for you. Adaptec typically costs more for equivalent features/perf, but offers better sppt. Either will work fine.
 
I didn't say that.. SCSI Plextor Burnprood is the one I have right now if you check out my sig, but Maximum PC did the review and the IDE drive actually spank the SCSI drive. That surprises the hell out of me. But for me I'll get a SCSI drive over IDE anydays though.
 
I always like having a SCSI burner because:
#1 I don't have anymore IDE channels
#2 Less underbuffers. (I guess that is obsolete since burn-proof is out)
 
Paldo, do u hava link?

Did the article say that the Burnproof of the IDE was different than the Burnproof of the SCSI?
 
I don't have the link but here's what they said about it in their February magazine.

<<Whenever we receive a Plextor CD-RW drive for review, the questions on our mind isn't, is it any good? But rather, How good is it? Plextor drives are the cream of the crop, so we always have exceedingly high expectations when a new burner rolled out. Imagine our shock, then the drive that we just assume would kick some serious butt in the lab actually produced benchmark scores that were a tad lower than most of the 12x drives we've reviewed previously. We can only report facts. This drive trailed other 12x IDE drives in almost every benchmark category, including the one area where Plextor typically dominates-Digital Audio Extraction. It's timed score of 2 minutes and 42 seconds to rip 340 MB of audio was 35 seconds behind the score of the 12x IDE Plextor drive, and 41 seconds slower than the TDK's IDE drive. The bad news continued in cd creation test. The Plextor burned a 650MB cd in 6 minutes and 42 seconds, which was almost 30 seconds slower than the Ricoh combo driv, but only 9 seconds slower than the IDE Plextor drive. Admittedly, these are small differences, but isn't SCSI supposed to dominate IDE? Not vice versa. Apparently times have changed...>>

I think I'll just stop here for now...
 
Thx for the post.

The IDE drive has been out longer than the SCSI .. so maybe it's a firmware maturity thing .. or something w/ the SCSI adpater. Either way, those aren't big diffs. I don't use my burner for anything but burning (no DAE - have Plex reader for that).

I think Burnproof negates much of SCSI's advantage in burning reliability. I've never had an IDE burner, but considered the IDE Plex. In the end tho, I'd rather save my IDE slots for IDE hard drives, which cost far less than their SCSI counterparts. SCSI burners are not much more than their IDE counterparts.
 
They have reviews of both the scsi and ide Plextor's at Storage Review and CDRInfo. BTW I have the 12x10x32 Plextor scsi drive and it's awesome. I've had no problems w/it. I've only had to use burnproof once and the cd came out just fine, no skips or jumps in the audio cd.
 
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