Which one of these DVD burners are better?

[snidy1]

I'm looking for an external DVD burner. So far I'm stuck between the TDK DED+440, or the Sony DRX510UL. I mainly want to tranfer home movies to DVD and make backups of my DVD movie collection.

 

[OmegaRedd]

Avoid external dvd burners like a crack head they take serious hit in speed. Get rid of your dvd-rom or cd drive. Then buy the fastest burner you can afford. I like the sony dru-510a plus it overclocks. Also the new gen of burners goes at 8x will be heare soon.

 

[John]

Also the new gen of burners goes at 8x will be heare soon.

The Plextor 8x +-R/RW has been available for a month now.

 

[snidy1]

Originally posted by: OmegaRedd
Avoid external dvd burners like a crack head they take serious hit in speed. Get rid of your dvd-rom or cd drive. Then buy the fastest burner you can afford. I like the sony dru-510a plus it overclocks. Also the new gen of burners goes at 8x will be heare soon.

Explain how external is slower. I think you're wrong.

 

[Ionizer86]

You may want to get a good internal then buy a 5.25" enclosure instead. Pretty much anything will work: DVD+ or - R.

 

[cmdrdredd]

external uses USB which is not usually fast enough to transfer large portions of data in reliable format for long periods of time. Buffer underrun errors are frequent.

I'd get an internal and I did...the Sony DRU510

 

[snidy1]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
external uses USB which is not usually fast enough to transfer large portions of data in reliable format for long periods of time. Buffer underrun errors are frequent.

I'd get an internal and I did...the Sony DRU510

What about IEEE1394?

 

[Ionizer86]

Firewire: 480Mb/s --> 60MB/s. 4x dvd speed = (1350KB/s * 4) = 5400KB/s = about 5.3MB/s.

Adapting to firewire for burning DVD's should be no issue. Even with an 8X burner, you've got a 60MB/s theoretical bandwidth on the firewire and a burn rate of 10.6MB/s. IE time to find a cheap enclosure hopefully (last time I checked, there was an enclosure for sale $28 at some shop).

 

[Slappy00]

"Also the new gen of burners goes at 8x will be heare soon. "

Plextor PX-708A

Internal & External
8x DVD+R (on 4x media)
4.7GB in 8min

 

[OmegaRedd]

Originally posted by: snidy1

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
external uses USB which is not usually fast enough to transfer large portions of data in reliable format for long periods of time. Buffer underrun errors are frequent.

I'd get an internal and I did...the Sony DRU510

What about IEEE1394?

Your firewire comment got me thinking so I did a test. Using a 3gig file first internal 20:32 min,then using my external 1394 hardrive kit I got 30:47 min. Same file, same drive= big gap in times on 2.4x +rw media. Of course my drive has been oc'd a little but on 4x speeds it will most show the same or even more. With 8x media my guess is a even bigger gap.

 

[snidy1]

Thank's for the info. I decided to get the Plextor PX-708A