Which CDRW is better.

[DeadHead]

I picked up a Cendyne 40x12x48 CDRW (Liteon rebadge) and I currently have a Plextor 12x10x32a. Which would be a better CDRW to buy for burning audio cds, and buring backup of files on my PC. I know the Cendyne is much faster, but doesn't the Plextor let me burn protected audio cds or something like that?

 

[amdskip]

Plextor makes one of the most solid drives out there. Lite on is good too but I personally like plextors but they aren't cheap. Neither drive has any advantage as far as burning copyrighted stuff.

 

[TheWart]

i am partial to plextor. my advice would be to sell the cendyne, it would be easier to sell now then later.

 

[ojai00]

The Lite-On drives are one of the fastest burners out there today. You can still burn your audio CDs and backup of your files, just faster than your Plextor. Just make sure you get media rated for your drive (Taiyo Yudens are considered the best: Fuji and Memorex with white caps). Buffer underrun protection comes with the Lite-On drives so you won't have to worry about burning coasters. Hope this helps.

 

[cloudchief]

Keep the plextor.
From Sept 17, 2002 PC Magazine "Inside Track" by John C. Dvorak.
"Another problem with high-speed drives, especially the high-speed writer, is that the drives are all optimized for the fastest write speed and error rates tend to increase when you drop the speed, because of jitter. To run many of the newer 40k and faster write-speed drives, you have to use more expensive media to satisfy the demands of the drive. And often, the drive won't agree with the computer system and will never write at full speed. Sounds like a marketing problern to me.
What should the end user do? Well, according to a few anonymous experts, the absolute best combination CD-R and CD-R/W drive ever made was the now discontinued Plextor 12X (12/10/32). You can still find this drive in the channel, but it probably will have disappeared from the market by year's end Some drives are available from Plextor as refurbished units for $75 (www.plextor.com, under Refurbished). Get one while you can."

 

[DeadHead]

I have had no problems with the plextor, and so I might just go ahead and keep it. The thing is the cendye doesn't sell for much on ebay and so I might have trouble selling it. Any advice for a starting price here?

 

[amdskip]

Start with $40.

 

[DeadHead]

Sold it to my brother for 40 bucks, I think i'll just leave that plextor in there.

 

[sleepdragon]

Well, if you want to reproduce an audio cd at the highest possible quality,
you should never burn at the speed higher than 8x, actually 4x will be the optimal...
WHY?? one word...jitter...
(not the same jitter as nero defined in it's jitter correction feature..)

You also would want to avoid doing on the fly burning, for more discussions,
go to google and do a search on exact audio copy (EAC)

Plextor is famous for it's low jitter when copying audio cds, so you are wise to keep it..

 

[Paulson]

Well, to me, lite on is just as stable as plextor... I've had my 24x for a while now and it works just fine...