Which firewire CD-RW: 2MB buffer w/ Burnproof or 4MB w/o?

[iamme]

Anyone know?

 

[bacillus]

IMO when you have the choice, get the cdrw with some sort of burnproof!

 

[corkyg]

I have two QueFire! 1394 burners, 2MB w/Burnproof. They work. Burnproof really is a caching system, and can be emulated simply by copying the entire source CD to the HDD first. Any data on the HDD can keep up with any burner. Burnproof is an automated way of temporarily caching the data on the HDD before burning begins.

You can get there either way . . . but "burnproof" is best for most users because it is automatic.

 

[Haden]

I would take one with burnproof.
If 2MB isn't enought something went wrong with system (some high priority program ate cpu or smth.), in such
case 4MB wouldn't help much and you would ruin the cd, while burnproof system will let to "resume" writing.

 

[LS20]

i wouldnt be able to live w/o burnproof. i multi task while burning and it would be a b*tch to have the disk fail

 

[iamme]

I thought so. I love my 12X Liteon w/ burnproof. I can't remember the last time I made a coaster. Thanks for the input

 

[Eug]

<< I have two QueFire! 1394 burners, 2MB w/Burnproof. They work. Burnproof really is a caching system, and can be emulated simply by copying the entire source CD to the HDD first. Any data on the HDD can keep up with any burner. Burnproof is an automated way of temporarily caching the data on the HDD before burning begins.

You can get there either way . . . but "burnproof" is best for most users because it is automatic. >>


During a burn we had some problems, so it took about 20 minutes at supposedly 12X for a 600 MB disc on my friend's burnproof-endowed drive. The burn should have taken way less than half that time, yet the disc worked fine. In other words burnproof allows one to resume a suspended burn. It's not just a caching system. See cute cartoons here.

With my own 4X without burnproof, I could multitask until the cows came home (even though it's a PIO-mode-only drive), and the discs would be fine as long as the burn was not interrupted for whatever reason. However, if the transfer was interrupted briefly, it didn't mean the burn took longer. It means instant coaster.