News of CD-R/CD-RW Drives

Yeah, an new SCSI. The rumors leaking out of Plextor Europe were correct.

http://www.plextor.co.jp/news/pxw4012ts/index.html

It's in Japanese.. you can translate it to Engrish using Babelfish.

Has this site done a review of the MPDAP20U



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The product specs say that it will burn a CD-R at 24X max. As I understand it, the device is built for USB 2.0 with backwards compat. for 1.1. I'm sure I'm running USB 1.1 and wonder how this might affect the CD-R burn rate.

Thanks

Been looking for a good combo drive lately and it looks like I have come down to the following drives

Plexor PX-320A

Samsung SM-332B

LG Gcc-4320B

Toshiba SD-R1202

On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 being the best) which drive would you choose? I should also mention that price is not a factor here.

... with Exaclink. I seem to recall people saying that this drive is not as good as the Acer Seamless Link one, is that right?

Wasn't this one the one made by Accesstek? Can someone tell me why it was no good? Thanks!

High my new and shiny Lite on drive works fine except when I tested the CPU usage it 's 22% at 8x and 15% at 4x. This is too high.

Yea it's DMA enabled and all the test are fine except this one. I updated the firmware the latest and still it is high. It is on the Secondary IDE all by itself and set to master so I am confused about this. Did I ...

Today we take a look at CenDyne's newest CD-RW drive, the Lighting V. Based on the Lite-On LTR-52246S, the Lighting V offers some of the fastest reading and writing speeds currently available. The drive also has its share of features including Lite-On's SMART-BURN and SMART-X technologies and support for the Mt. Rainier format.

I'm sure that the question on most of minds is how does it perform? Are 52x writing speeds truly as fast as ...

Huh, I'm a real newbie, since this is my first CD writer now..

' heard much about updating the firmware, but now I'm not sure if I should do this (since there were also rumors about better staying with older firmware).

First, how do I find out what version is on my writer? I did not execute the firmware update file I downloaded, for I don't know if it would ask me often enough if ...

Hi,
I have a trial version of Nero software.
Sample application APITest is generating debug assertion.
Following is sample of the same, where iso.dat is the data generated in iso format.

"
D:\NeroSDK5582\NeroAPI\Samples\NeroAPITest\Debug>neroapite
st --write --drivename f --iso myccd c:\iso.dat
Nero API version 5.5.9.9

Assertion failed: FALSE, file D:\cd writer Driver\nero\NeroSDK5582\NeroAPI\Sampl
es\NeroAPITest\NeroAPITest.cpp, line 1116
"
Also how to write data to the CD. The example shows of writng audio and video only.
Thanks and regards, ...

Hi

Ok i have had this plextor burner for ages (about a year) and have never been able to burn at 16x, the higest i can burn is 12x and in the beginning i even had problems doing that. But finally 1 year later, it is getting on my nerves, and i would love to at least once burn at 16x speed.

When i try to burn at 16x it gives me errors, i have ...

I was checking out the PC World article Ian mentioned, in order to see exactly what it said about 4X DVD-R media possibly not being playable on DVD-ROM drives or home DVD players manufactured before THIS fall!

Anyway, while reading the article, I also noticed that Maxell was
going to introduce 48X CD-R media in 2003.
The article implies that the reason they aren't releasing 52X media is as follows (quoted verbatim from the article): ...