New Cd-RW

[Deleted member 3023]

I was hoping someone can give me some answers & advice.

I am buying a new CD-RW soon & was just wondering if the 2/8mb cache makes anytype of a difference, which burn-underun technology works best, should I stay away from the 52x drives due to them "eating" the disks sometimes (I've read some bad stories about this happening & heard it talked about on TechTV) & what brands are the most reliable & quietest?

 

[BunnyStroker]

I vote for a LiteOn drive

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[Spitfire_x86]

Nowdays, 2 MB vs. 8 MB buffer doesn't matter at all. Anti buffer under-run technolody is good enough to save you everytime from buffer under-run, regardless of how much MB buffer the CD-RW has.

LiteOn is the best bet for CD-RWs. Outstanding performer and very inexpensive, fairly quiet compared to other brand CD-RW's of similar spec.

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[Crashman]

I beg to differ, having fewer corrections is better than having many corrections, both for read speed and for write speed.

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[sparky853]

I would recommend LG CD-RW. I had one for 2 years, not a single glitch, the only reason I don't still have it is I upgraded to a LG DVD burner and sold the CD-RW to my brother, who has had it for 4 months, no problems.

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[Spitfire_x86]

At 40x to 52x burning speed, there's very little difference between 2 MB vs. 8 MB buffer. At that speed level, 8 MB buffer will very quickly run out if your HDD can't keep up, just like 2 MB buffer.

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[Crashman]

It makes a big difference with on-the-fly copies, because it could take a very short period of time for the CD ROM to read past a small scratch. Also, what if your hard drive can keep up, but you're multitasking so it switches from one file to another for a short time?

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[_WW_]

I've been using a Lite On 52x24x52 for about a year and a half. Mostly using Memorex CDs I've burned over a hundred music CDs and use the RW function to frequently back up and store data on over 50 CD-RWs. It takes about 37 seconds to format a CD-RW (compared to 45 minutes for my old one..heh heh). The two programs I've used the most are CloneCD and Direct CD. I've also used it with Nero on another OS to burn data for a friend that requires his stuff burned with Nero. All of this and I cannot remember ever creating a coaster or finding any corrupt data or music CDs that would not work.

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[Deleted member 3023]

Thanks for the helpful feedback everyone, looking around at prices now. No one had anything to say about Plextor, Samsung or Sony; weird.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Plextor is extremely overpriced. Samsung is okay, not better than LiteOn. Sony doesn't make CD-RW, sells rebadged LiteOn (or other) CD-RWs

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