Plextor 24/10/40A is out!

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The new burner has Burn-Proof, IDE/ATAPI interface, 4 megs of Buffer, and a "new tech" called PoweRec II, which slows the burning process if you use bad quality CD-media so that the burned CD has no errors of any kind.

Anyway I don't like PoweRec. If I am trying to burn a Sh¡t brand CD at 24X, I want to burn it at 24X, yeah, I know it is a crappy CD, but anyway I want to burn it at 24X!!!, so I wouldn't like to burn the CD at only 4X just because the burner decides it's better for conserving my data... - Just my tought...

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It won't go from 24x to 4x. I vaguely remember reading about this, and the reviewer said it worked quite well, actually. it'd do a quick test and run at the highest safe speed.

Even with this enabled, the reviewer was running some 16x media at 18-20x, no errors, no slowing down.

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But, for example, my Plextor 12/10/32A (without PoweRec) is able to burn 6x brand-o-shite CDs at 12X without any kind of problem, they can be read in all drives, hi-fi systems...

So why can't a 24X burner burn at 24X with all media? At least there should be a way to disable PoweRec using software.

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I have read more carefully all the stuff at the Plextor site.

The 24/10/40A burner burns in the most ideal case at 16X from minute 0 to min 6, at 20X from min 6 to min 16 and at 24X from min 16 to min 74 (or 80 or whatever). That speed variation is called "ZoneCLV".

So is it a 24/10/40 burner or a 16-20-24/10/40 burner?

Dammit!!!

Some calculations...

6*60/16 + 10*60/20 + 58*60/24 = 197.5 seconds each CD...

74*60/197.5 = 22.48101... Oh yes... my fault, very close to 24X

But if you read how PowerRec II (yes, only 1 "R") works (<A HREF="http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/powerec.html" target="_new">http://www.plextor.be/english/technical/powerec.html</A>), if you happen to use a medium quality CD...

6*60/16 + 10*60/16 + 58*60/20 = 234 seconds each medium quality CD

74*60/234 = 18.9... close to 20X, NOT 24X

And with a real crappy CD... 16X NOT CLOSE TO 24X at all

(All calculations without lead-in/out time taken into account)

Does anyone know for sure if it is possible to disable PoweRec II?



DAD, MUM, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH (...AND MY COMPUTER IS GETTING RATHER OLD)
 
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YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISABLE IT!

And even if you left it on, from reviews I've seen, it'll still burn CDs above what they are rated for.

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Where did you find reviews? The drive has been officialy announced a pair of days ago...

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That 'ZoneCLV' sounds like a load of BS. Constant Angular Velocity does that, and it sounds like it's spinning the cd at a constant rpm and changing the power of the laser to compensate for the increased speed on the outter tracks.

Sounds like a good drive though......
 
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Yeah, they're great.

Sorry, haven't been able to find any of the reviews I saw before. Maybe I'm just full of crap :)

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