Pioneer A06 - Anyone has tested it?

[Noua]

I'm starting this topic in order to find out how the A06 is working... Like i told on my previous posts, I'll by a DVD burner soon and I need to find witch oe to get. I'm really thinking on the 510, but LitOn, TDK and NEC are valid options... Also I'm very curious on the A06, so... Comment your experiences on this new Pionner burner... pleaseeeeeeee...

[Noua]

Well, I'm refering to the new Pioneer drive DVR-A06, obvious!!!
Drive summary:

dvd +r: 4x
dvd - r: 4x
dvd +rw: 2.4x
dvd - rw: 2x
cd r: 16x
cd rw: 10x

I thinks this it...

[vbl117]

It is not sold actually . It has only been announced . So does the incoming Ricoh which seems much more interesting to me .

[Ian]

I don't like the Ricoh's 8x DVD read speeds. Otherwise it looks pretty sweet.

[vbl117]

I don't like the Ricoh's 8x DVD read speeds. Otherwise it looks pretty sweet.

ability to record multisession data DVD+R seems pretty interesting to me .
No matter the read speeds , a DVD recorder is not used to read DVD in most cases ( i am much more worried by access times when i have to buy a burner ) . DVD-ROM drives are cheap ( you can have a Lite-On with very good reading/copying abilities for 50 euros average ) .

[Noua]

Right now, i can't afford a DVD burner and an aditional reader. I would prefer to have only one drive. On the other hand, I have only 1 ide free on my board. I do know that the borad has 2 ATA 100 ide controllers (i'm at work, so i can't be precise if this is the case, but i do know that i have 2 extra controllers) that i'm not using. I have to check it out, but i've been told that i can use th regular ides and the 2 ata 100 ides, whitch makes 4 controlers. Well, 4 controlers multiplied by 2... that gives me 8 ide possibilities... To good to be true... i must verify this... By the way, my board is a ASUS A7v 133 so if anyone knows anything abaut this...

I've read somewhere that NEC doesn't make a lot of firmware updates... Is that true? Cause if this is the case than i'd rather go to sony or pioneer...

[vbl117]

NEC drives are mainly sold to DELL COMPUTERS for integration in their PC . Of Course few NEC drives are sold directly to consumers .
If you changed your mind about getting a DVD-ROM drive it seems to me that you should put your optical drives on the 2 regular IDE ports ( the non RAID ports ) to make it work well ( and put the extra Hard drives on the two extra IDE ports ) .

[Noua]

So you're saying that i can use the regular ide ports to connect my cdrw, cd reader and other optical drives, and use the Raid ports to connect my hard drive? Is that it? This means and use the 4 ports simoltaneous .... :D:D

eh eh eh

Now, all I need is the DVD burner...

[Banshee]

The drive sample I tested was very stable, although admittedly by Pioneer an engineering sample. No problems of note were seen in the time I havd to look at it.

[vbl117]

So you're saying that i can use the regular ide ports to connect my cdrw, cd reader and other optical drives, and use the Raid ports to connect my hard drive? Is that it? This means and use the 4 ports simoltaneous .... :D:D

YES . You can connect your hard drive containing your O.S ( windows i assume ) on the first extra IDE channel as master ( or you could let him on the first regular IDE channel as master if you have enough room on your regular ports ) . Your hard drive performance will remain the same if you plug it on the first extra IDE channel .

[Noua]

Ok than...

All I need now is to know the burne to get...
Does anyone know the price range for the A06? I've heard something like 330$ witch is more or less 290€... Excellent price for a +-RW... Hum.. with some luck i'll buy from US and get a way to ship it back to Portugal....