Why are SCSI burners slower than IDE?

[TunaBoo]

IDE Hard drives are slower than SCSI because a) no real demand in consumer market for 15k rpm drives and b) controllers might not be able to handle it. But why are there no 24 and very few 16 (1 I know of) SCSI burners. It seems like since SCSI is "higher qual" that they would have higher speed burners, and not lower.

 

[Hard_Boiled]

CD burners are mostly used in the home. IDE is mostly used in the home. Add them up and it's not a very big market for SCSI burners. With hard drives it's just different. Corporations with big intranets and whatnot need to be able to access their data fast and a whole slew of other things that makes them turn to high RPM SCSI drives. They don't need to burn cd's in less than 5 minutes, or burn cd's at all.

But I'm happy with my 12X burner, it really is plenty fast for my purposes.

 

[dowxp]

12x plex is good enough for me. there just isnt a large market for scsi burners.

 

[TunaBoo]

It seems like corporations would have the rackmounted SCSI CD-Burners (for ones a tad too cheap to get a CD stamper)