- Oct 18, 1999
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After years of hearing "Plextor is the greatest cdr ever" I decided to retire my 1 month old HP9300 8x4x32 for the plextor 12x10x32S (had my job order it 
so it is free). Anyway, I slapped this puppy to my SCAM SCSI card and had no problems with the system seeing it. I always heard plextor uses metal gears so I opened the tray and peered inside but saw no metal gears. I didnt want to open it to thouroughly check so I let it go. After 3 different patch upgrades for Adaptec EZ cd-creator I finally got the program working with the drive. It works as advertised but I wanted to check the burn-proof technology so I used cdrwin and enable burnproof and did a burn while I was on the web, had several MS apps open, played mp3s and had several DOS windows opened. It burned it flawlessly. Now, my system has 3 cdrom drives, one 48x speed standard drive that is basically the workhorse on my system. All my games are installed and run from that drive as well as all my cd-ripping and mp3 creation. The second is a DVD drive used primarily for playing back DVDs. the third is obviously the Plextor. Now, my 48x main system usually rips a music cd for mp3 creation starting at a minimum 8x speed and maxxing out at 18-20x speed which I thought was pretty good. When I tried to rip with the plextor, it STARTED at a minimum 20x speed and actually passed the spec for it at 32x max on the outer music tracks! It ripped at 34x speed! I LOVE this drive! PLEXTOR RULES! Says I.
so it is free). Anyway, I slapped this puppy to my SCAM SCSI card and had no problems with the system seeing it. I always heard plextor uses metal gears so I opened the tray and peered inside but saw no metal gears. I didnt want to open it to thouroughly check so I let it go. After 3 different patch upgrades for Adaptec EZ cd-creator I finally got the program working with the drive. It works as advertised but I wanted to check the burn-proof technology so I used cdrwin and enable burnproof and did a burn while I was on the web, had several MS apps open, played mp3s and had several DOS windows opened. It burned it flawlessly. Now, my system has 3 cdrom drives, one 48x speed standard drive that is basically the workhorse on my system. All my games are installed and run from that drive as well as all my cd-ripping and mp3 creation. The second is a DVD drive used primarily for playing back DVDs. the third is obviously the Plextor. Now, my 48x main system usually rips a music cd for mp3 creation starting at a minimum 8x speed and maxxing out at 18-20x speed which I thought was pretty good. When I tried to rip with the plextor, it STARTED at a minimum 20x speed and actually passed the spec for it at 32x max on the outer music tracks! It ripped at 34x speed! I LOVE this drive! PLEXTOR RULES! Says I.
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