what is the best cd burner?

[gplracer]

I think I want to get the Plextor 12x one with burn proof. Are there any challengers for it? thanks! Also will this cd burner do 80 min cd's?

 

[Narse]

Plex is best by me been using them for about 2 years now and never had a prob

 

[LXi]

There is no challege right now that the Plextor 12x10x32 w/ burnproof is the best burner. However Yamaha and Sanyo beat them to 16x. The Sanyo 16x claims to have burnproof, if it's a good burner after all, it could be good enough to replace the PlexWriter 12x10x32.

 

[NFS4]

Plextor

 

[John]

Smart &amp; Friendly <gasp>

Plextor........no doubt about it.

 

[urbantechie]

Plextor


Of course it can burn 80min cds. I over-burn 80min CDs on my Plextor 8/4/32A all the time.

 

[bonkers325]

anybody experince lock ups overburn with plextor 12x10x32
cd works
jsut hangs on the leadout

using nero

from experience happened with my 4/12 plex and 8/20 plex

 

[NFS4]

Just overburned a CD on my Plextor 8/4/32 the other day with no problems

 

[LXi]

Not even an honorable mention to somebody else? Heh... Yamaha and HP both make excellent burners. Once I burned 28 CDs straight, 13 hours non-stop burning at 2x with my Yamaha. All turned out to be fine, man I love my burner.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

over 3 hours straight burning on my plextor 12/10/32A... all at 12x, equaled 20 CDS. NOt a problem on any of them.


Mike

 

[LXi]

Mind if I ask what you burned?

 

[Soccerman]

yeah plextor right now looks to be the best for IDE (gasp)! Burnproof just takes the cake.

otherwise, reading performance wise, it gets wasted by Pioneers latest DVDROM drive..

here's it's advantages
-nearly impossible to make a bad CDR when it comes to buffer underruns
-some of the BEST Digital Audio Extraction

It's disadvantages are:
-slower read speed then other drives
-much worse access time compared to the Pioneer 115 DVDROM (60ms worse to be exact, the Pioneer comes in at 80ms)

however there aren't any real competitors in terms of burning quality right now (that are reviewed), so for burning this is the best drive.

 

[Bryan]

Plextor...

 

[Shockwave]

Ok, so general opinion is the Plextor, now my question......Between the Plextors, would you rather have the 10x scsi or the 12x IDE?

 

[LXi]

Im for SCSI, but their SCSI models are expensive and no burnproof.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

It was a collection of Digital Camera pictures that my old teacher took... all at 3.3 megapixel/tiff format... ended up being roughly 580mb. And he needed 20 copies of it to give away to friends and stuff.



Mike

 

[Shockwave]

Sorry, phrased my question poorly. Does the burnproof of the IDE place the quality above a scsi burner? Or will either one burn equally (for the most part) well? I understand how the burnproof works, but does it place it above scsi technology?

 

[chilo6]

i say scsi.
PLextor is good but not the best, sure maybe compared to all the other ide it stands good, but i say SCSI!!!
the plextor 12x10x32 is good but face it ide sucks, between your ide and a normal ide hardrive heh good luck, y do u want burn proof, sure it will burn, but will it work on an average cd-rom? What about when duplicating a cd?? ide to ide? I say get a scsi, a scsi cd/dvd-rom and a scsi burner thats all u need, its ur decision but i say spend the extra money for a nice scsi burner, I mean if u want top quality.
I say
the scsi Teac 8x24, i have it, its up to you, but nothing is better than scsi, the teac ranges around 200 bucks, (the boxed comes with a scsi card) or u could pay about 150 dolars extra for a good scsi card. Oh what do u know $350 hmm isnt that pretty close to that plextor???
Or if u got the money get the plextor scsi, that would rock.

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[LXi]

Mikewarrior2: Oh boy, I wish I can burn CDs that fast. Btw, can you duplicate CDs at that speed as well? That 28 CDs I burned were all duplications.

 

[nippyjun]

plextor all the way. No coasters like with both of the HP's I had.

 

[Radboy]

I like/have SCSI, but Burnproof (turns off the laser &amp eliminates SCSI's (multitasking) advatage.

If u don't need the connector for an (IDE) hard drive, then the IDE seems the way to go.

Either way, Plextor.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

It'd add about a half hour to do the reading if I had to do duplications for each cd... still not too bad, but right now, since my dvd drive died, i can't do cd to cd dupes.


Mike

 

[jacobnero6918]

Just thought that I would inform you that the BURN PROOF technology was created by sanyo. Also I believe that sanyo actually makes the Plextor drive from what I can tell. Ricoh also made some of the Plextor drives.

 

[AMB]

Defintly go Plextor

 

[Mikewarrior2]

NO, Plextor makes their own drives.

Ricoh makes lots of drives on the market(they are sometimes rebadged as other brand names and other not so brand names).

Sanyo invented burnproof. Ricoh invented a similiar(but from a paper point of view, better) technology. Plextor licensed BurnProof from Sanyo for the 12/10/32A. That does not mean that sanyo makes the drive.


Mike