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Plextor 12x10x32 or Yamaha 16X10X40?

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Weyoun: On my p200 mmx (computer before current athlon 650), I never had a problem burning at 4x as long as I didnt try to do much (if anything) while burning. If I was getting that many bad CDs I would have dropped the burn speed. But isn't burnproof great? I just got the TDK drive (exchanged da Yamaha, now I need to swindle my uncle outta the reciept for the drive so I can get the $50 MIR ;-)) and its been great so far.
 
Yea this topic has been beaten to death but I tot agree with those who find BURN proof somewhat useless. At 16x ur not gonna care about burn proof. And as stated above if ur constantly finding urself using the feature then its a waste of cash since u could just get a slower one. I personally dont own a cdrw but as soon as i get the money ill invest in the fastest drive regardless of the drives capability to prevent underruns. Im not gonna play quake while im burnin. Is it really even worth playin for 5 minutes?? Its only gonna slow down the burn. Just my two cents.....
 
Fenix793: Thats what I think too. Burn-Proof is becoming less usefull as cd burns times are decreasing, media is extremely cheap, and most people dont do much while burning. I browse the web while burning cd's on my TDK 12x and never has the buffer went below 80% and its a 2 meg buffer.
 
TDK makes a 16x/10x WITH burn-proof....it's the best IDE cdrw currently out.

as for burn-proof vs. none - i'd go w/ burn-proof...8MB buffer regardless, u can still
easily get buffer-underruns while multitasking - if u don't multitask (and have a fairly quick hdd and dma enabled on both drives, both on separate ide channels) then u'll be fine w/out burn-proof...personally, i don't feel like sitting around for 5 min. while only one cd burns...

10 min for 2 cds, etc....

get a burn-proof drive, it's worth it...and the technology is proven and worthwhile...
 
OK I have the TDK 12x10x32 Almost identical to the Plextor here. I love it, but does anyone else have a problem with the Funky Mac Colors scheme?
 
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