CDR Newbiw Question

Hi,
I'm in thee market for a Cd-r/rw drive and was looking at the Sony CRX145s SCSI (32R10W4RW) Hs anybody encounteresd this one and also is it important to get a sCSI when using the higher speed drives?
Thenks for any help.
R.Sobyra

SCSI is better, but not always faster. By having the CD-Burner on a separate channel by itself (IDE secondary Master, with no slave present, or SCSI) you reduce the chance of bad cd writes.

Yes you do need a SCSI card for a SCSI cd-burner, an Adaptec 2906 is sufficient for up to 10MB/sec(Fast SCSI) of transfer (that's equal to about 64X cd speed), anything faster and you need a more expensive card.


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go with the plextor 12 or 8, both do everything / burn modes except for that practice burn thing, not sure about that one. Had a URL, at work, that listed all the recommended drives. Gamecopyworld should have a good list.

Take care.

Just purchased 2 Teac w512EB burners with burn proof and with bios 2.0B they both fully support clone CD which one ups plextor because no plextor drive supports write simulation not that you need it. Paid 320 for both. They are replacing plextor 8/20 scsi models I have and after testing I am very impressed. Turns out with burn proof they are more stable than my plextor drives ever were although they worked great. It was just that I never could surf the net or play a game or do any multitasking while burning because 9 times out of ten that would create a coaster. Very pleased.

Balls, said the Queen if I had them I would be king!

I don't agree that mixing SCSI and IDE is necessarily bad. I do it and I still make quality burns. I do agree that not all drives are created equal, however, when it comes to back ups. Clone CD has a good listing of drives and their burn modes supported : http://www.elby.de/CloneCD/english/hardware.htm.



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Fantastic drive! Maybe you saw one of my posts and went for it? I have been keeping my eye open for some colaboration on what I am telling people about Teac 512EB. It is the best burner I ever purchased for the money bar none and I was a plextor scsi burner owner. The plextor model is nice but about 60 bucks more expensive and cant do write simulation with CloneCD, only has a 2mb buffer while the Teac has a 4mb buffer and the Teac Overburns which the plextor cannot do! The teac also has the burnproof technology as you mentioned. I own two and might buy another one for my second system so I can make two copies of the same original at the same time with Sony burning software I have. I want to try it out.

Balls, said the Queen if I had them I would be king!