Bluray is there importance to the cache

[WINTERLORD]

Hi i just recently bought a bluray burner the LG model that has 4mb of cache but noticed most other burners have 8mb of cache. now i have a really nice 400 dollar montitor with superb quality

so im wondering if the burner having only 4mb of cache impacts the quality at all?

can anyone give me a rundown on this and weather im losing anything with only having 4mb of cache for the bluray burner

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I HAVE A LITEON bluray burner with a 8mb cache and a lg bluray rom with a 4 mb cache
and they both play bluray flawlessly!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Your 4 mb model will run smooth!

 

[WINTERLORD]

ok but how does this affect performance or does it? cause i could always send it back and get an 8mb cache model but idk. i just wonder if by having 4mb cache if its drasticly cutting speed or if it is taking away any quality.

on a side note i just went and checked and newegg showed its Plextor had 4mb cache i know they use to be the best in optical drives wonder if they still are?

 

[WINTERLORD]

is plextor still the best in optical drives?

 

[RetiredChief]

On plextor drives: I loved them, untill they got out of the oem internal dvd market. Now all their DVD drives are just a rebadged drive form another oem supplier. On of the things I liked was their plextor tools for evaluating the quality of recorded DVD's that I backed up. Still have their 716 and their 755 model drives (indaces the high quality as they still work great). For the Blu-ray drives, I'm not sure their "quality" is worth the cost differenial. I have 2 BD rewitable daul layer drives, one from Pioneer and one from LG and both work fine.

Is to the cache size. I think you will find that it only effect burst rate when burning data, so not a real biggy. Only other effect would be if your are doing alot of other task while writting to a disk or watching a dvd while recaculating a large spreadsheet, or coping large amount of data to a HD at the same time. The quality/reliability of the drive would be more of a consideration than the size of the cache. Personnally I have shied away from the Lite-on lineup of blu-ray burners.

Added: Plextor Px-B940 Reviews seem very favorable. But not sure if it is much better than the pioneer version.
Could not find it "made by plextor, or a rebadged pioneer with Plextor firmware.
http://www.ccereviews.com/reviews/plextor-px-b940sa-internal-12x-bd-writer/6/
http://www.cdrlabs.com/Reviews/plextor-px-b940sa-12x-blu-ray-disc-writer/Conclusion.html

 

[WINTERLORD]

Best answer selected by winterlord.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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