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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:44 pm

Selling my PX-708A. You guys know how much I took care of this baby:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2794249728

Ah well, I need the money...

Thanks to hoxlund for hosting the auction for me...
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Postby tazdevl on Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:49 pm

Has hell frozen over? :lol:

I figure you would have parted with your left nut sooner than a Plextor product.
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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:09 pm

I was wondering how long it would take before someone would reply....
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Postby gigabyte on Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:30 am

why are you selling your drive though? I thought you loved Plextor! Did you get a new burner?
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Postby aviationwiz on Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:45 am

gigabyte wrote:why are you selling your drive though? I thought you loved Plextor! Did you get a new burner?


Yeah, got the Pioneer DVR-107. You sure haven't been reading the DVD forums, :lol: I swear I told you over IM once too...

Plextor rocks btw, I'll be the first to get the PX-712SA :)
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Postby gigabyte on Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:47 am

yeah, i dont read the forums enough :P

Plextor 712SA?? Never heard of it (i can't believe i haven't!) What info do we know bout it so far?
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Postby gigabyte on Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:00 am

WHOA! just checked their website, and 12x burning! I thought that Phillips were making 16x though by then! Hmm.... anyone know if this can overclock any media, like the 708A?

For customers who want to evaluate SATA performance, Plextor also offers a SATA Conversion Kit for its PlexWriter™ PX-5224A, Premium 52/32/52A CD-R/RW drives, and the PX-708A DVD±R/RW “dual format” 8X R-DVD drive. Plextor’s SATA Conversion Kit includes a SATA cable harness and IDE/Parallel ATA-to-SATA daughter board, enabling OEMs and systems integrators to evaluate SATA prior to availability of the PX-712SA.


What do they mean by this??

Too bad RW are still 4x, but i dont use that format that often anyways though... wait a sec, i do! yah, that is too bad. o well, 12x burning is still pretty sweet.

also, i guess 708a users wont get 8x dvd-r. :cry:

if this drive can overclock media, than i am definitely interested (well im already interested, but ill be even more interested)
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Postby tazdevl on Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:53 pm

I would assume it's some kind of optical SATA adapter that's tweaked for optical drives.
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Postby gigabyte on Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:21 pm

so does this enchance the performance of your drive or what?

if so, in what way?
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Postby CowboySlim on Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:39 pm

so does this enchance the performance of your drive or what?

if so, in what way?


SATA on an optical drive is 99% hype. Put a 10 gallon per minute fuel pump and an 800 cubic foot per minute Holley double pumper on a Vanagon and how much faster do you think it will go?

Put 120mph rated tires on a Yugo and do you think it will go 120?

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Postby sapiens74 on Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:50 am

Actually SATA will help especially on Intel chipsets where it's integrated, and you are doing multitasking.

Not to mention getting rid of legacy cabling.

I usally am downloading something or doing multiple things when I burn DVd's and such, so going to SATA will help users like myself
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Postby wicked1 on Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:02 pm

tazdevl wrote:Has hell frozen over? :lol:

I figure you would have parted with your left nut sooner than a Plextor product.


nah hes just coming to a realization that I am sure he wont admit.
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Postby aviationwiz on Sat Mar 20, 2004 12:32 pm

wicked1 wrote:
tazdevl wrote:Has hell frozen over? :lol:

I figure you would have parted with your left nut sooner than a Plextor product.


nah hes just coming to a realization that I am sure he wont admit.


Well, the 107 is faster when it comes to DVD-R which I appear to burn more often now, but I'm pissed that I can only burn DVD+R at 8x on 4x media. PX-708A is still the second best drive around, the only reason why the 107 is worth a dime is because of the hacked firmware, without that, it would be useless.
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Postby cfitz on Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:38 pm

aviationwiz wrote:the only reason why the 107 is worth a dime is because of the hacked firmware, without that, it would be useless.

Good to see that the fanatic is back. :roll: :lol:

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Postby CowboySlim on Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:35 pm

cfitz wrote:
aviationwiz wrote:the only reason why the 107 is worth a dime is because of the hacked firmware, without that, it would be useless.

Good to see that the fanatic is back. :roll: :lol:

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