Ricoh CDRW Drive - Opinion needed

i just got one on special for $339 (melbourne, australia)
havnt tested it yet... will get back to u soon  
but from all reports the ricoh line is pretty reliable...
and u just ahve to love the justlink  

This behavior must not continue! Feel the BURNING STARE of my HAMSTER... and change your ways!

Justlink?

Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

Well i just love the plextor 16x10x32x 7125A
burnt 2 cd's yesterday... pretty easy, just haveto work with unfamiliar software.

got a bunch of wav files and made a perfect audio cd (time taken 9 mins including foolin around)
then i got my windows 2000 pro CD and made another perfect backup... with hard disk image first.
a reccomended product.



The most suprising thing was it was quiet, and the CD's came out feeling meerly warm, not burning hot like the old 4 speed i used once.



This behavior must not continue! Feel the BURNING STARE of my HAMSTER... and change your ways!

Justlink is like burn-proof.
it detects approaching buffer underruns and halts burning... but the main differance is that the size of the gap created is much smaller 2-4 micron compared to 30 micron (or so the documentation says)

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Ok, that's what I figured

I've always thought it strange that we make such a big deal over something a few microns (or a fraction of a micron) big, when that's only a percentage of a percent the width of a human hair...

Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

Maybe a micrometer (used to be called a 'micron') is not a big deal to YOU, but to a cd-rom with a wavelength of 780 nanometers reading pits that are 1 - 3 micrometers long, it can be.
From what I've read, Burn Proof on 12x cd-rw drives can leave a gap of 40-45 micrometers, and the newer burn proof in 16x drives leaves about 2-5 micrometers. Just-Link leaves less than a 2 micrometer gap.
40-45 micrometers IS enough to *possibly* cause an error, however, I haven't heard anyone in here complaining about their 12x plextor drives making junk cds, so I'm led to believe that any of these technologies will do, however, I'd go for a 16x burn proof, or any speed just-link, just to be safe.
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