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Snap decision! Plextor or Yamaha?

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Athlex

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I'm buying a CD burner to build into a friend's computer today and I can't decide whether to get a Plextor 16x10x40 drive with a 2meg buffer and "burn-proof" or the Yamaha 16x10x40 drive which has a monster 8 meg buffer... Which should I go for?
Thanks!
 
This has been asked time and time again... There is no right answer. I personaly love Yamaha but many others in this forum will swear on there life that Plextor is the best... I think either way you go you won't be disappointed.
 
Personally I'd take the Yamaha becuase I'd rather have a big buffer and not have to rely on burn proof. Burn proof leaves imperfections in a CD you don't want if you are going to use that CD as a "master copy".

If the plextor used a big buffer and only used BP when it was needed that would be difference. But at 16x a 2MB buffer is about a seconds worth of data. Not enough in my opinion.

Besides that there is price/performance, my Yamaha 8x8x24 was 2/3s the price of a Plextor 8x4x32 when I bought it. Plextors are good, but I don't think they are that good, to be worth that kind of price.
 
Thanks for the help guys. Looks like a big buffer might be the way to go. I didn't realize that burn-proof actually interrupts and restarts the burn process. Sanyo's cartoon descriptions were quite, uh, helpful. 🙂
 
Yeah it does, and it leaves a gap close to half the maximum a CD can correct (Ricoh's justlink is better in that respect, it's about 1/40th of what a CD can correct, but it's still a gap). And if you copy a copy, you will copy all the gaps. And I personally don't like that, maybe I'm being knitpicky...but there are good reasons why you wouldn't want those gaps in a "Master" copy.
 
Sanyo's cartoon descriptions were quite, uh, helpful

I thought so ...

and it leaves a gap close to half the maximum a CD can correct (Ricoh's justlink is better in that respect, it's about 1/40th of what a CD can correct, but it's still a gap)

Not true with the 16x drives that use Sanyo components. The new stuff has an improved version of BURN-Proof which shrinks the gap length down to 2-5nm, which approximately what JustLink leaves; the original BURN-Proof had a gap length of ~40nm. Not sure if any of the 12x drives have the newer BURN-Proof incorporated.
 
get the plextor - mainly because if u're not doing some insane style multitasking, it should never even go to burnproof, and if it does, it's better than a useless half-burnt CD...

also, the yamaha's 16x rating isn't true 16x....it's only 16x for packet-writing, and at the edges of the cd...

the plextor is true 16x
 
Maximum PC really ripped into the Yamaha, they really didnt like it at all. I work at best buy and sell the TDK(reboxed plextor) and the Yamaha, but I do recommend the TDK(and Plextor) over the Yamaha.
-doug
 
I did end up with the Yamaha and I'm more than happy with its 16x peformance. (Couldn't resist playing with the system I built. 🙂 ) I'm probably going to get one for myself now. I'd just assume avoid a CD burning system that can interrupt itself and add flaws (howerver small.) The other thing is that I'm always running some sort of distributed compuing program which takes up 100% of my CPU time, so a 2 meg buffer on a 16x drive would probably call on burn-proof more than I'd like. My only complaint is the lack of CD-TEXT support because I have a Yamaha CD changer that can read CD-text. Other than that, it seems like a great drive. I'm also glad they were able to do away with a fan. At work, one of the systems I support has a 4x Yamaha SCSI burner that has a fan built in. Seemed like overkill, but I guess now they've built a cooler mechansim. Again, thanks for the input.
ATX

edit: spelling
 
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