Plextor burners
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:19 pmAre Plextor burners based on Lite-On drives? I know TDK's are....
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:19 pmPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:20 pmPlextor makes their own drives, not based on Lite-On.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:25 pmSome of the older TDK drives were based on Plextor models. For example, my TDK VeloCD 12x10x32 was based on a Plextor drive.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:44 pmPlextor is a designer and a manufacturer of optical drives.
unlike TDK (and others) that only rebadge drives manufactured by others.
unlike TDK (and others) that only rebadge drives manufactured by others.
Re: Plextor burners
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:51 pmglock20rocks wrote:Are Plextor burners based on Lite-On drives? I know TDK's are....
....and Chevy's cars are based on Fords.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:53 pmOk, thanks. I know they used to use Sanyo drives. They overhaul 'em and add so much to them that that might as well make their own. I know they never just slap a new name plate sticker on the drive and say they're done, like some companies do. I was mostly wondering who makes the base drives they use now...
Check it out:
Under Mechanical system: Plextor/Sanyo.
http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/20 ... rw-07.html
Check it out:
Under Mechanical system: Plextor/Sanyo.
http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/20 ... rw-07.html
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:17 pmHmm...Apparently, Toms Hardware, Maximum PC, and alot of other sources are wrong about Plex's being based on Sanyo's previously.
Quote:
"Plextor makes our own drives. We OEM them to other companies at times!
We've never used any Sanyo drive as a 'base' drive and OEM'd it ... SKC,
the parent company of Plextor, is a major manufacturer of motors, etc in
Japan and many other companies use our parts in their drives.
Plextor America Support Team - Jack"
Plextor has one hell of good tech support team, too! Got a reply a few minutes after I sent the e-mail! Wow!
I to think I bought a Lite-On instead of a Plextor. Oh well, sure learned my lesson about Lite-Ons. Got my Plextor 48x24x48, and couldn't be happier!!
Quote:
"Plextor makes our own drives. We OEM them to other companies at times!
We've never used any Sanyo drive as a 'base' drive and OEM'd it ... SKC,
the parent company of Plextor, is a major manufacturer of motors, etc in
Japan and many other companies use our parts in their drives.
Plextor America Support Team - Jack"
Plextor has one hell of good tech support team, too! Got a reply a few minutes after I sent the e-mail! Wow!
I to think I bought a Lite-On instead of a Plextor. Oh well, sure learned my lesson about Lite-Ons. Got my Plextor 48x24x48, and couldn't be happier!!
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:21 pmPlextor Rulez!
(sorry, couldn't resist
)
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Plextor 40/12/40
soon to be joined by:
Plextor 24/10/40
(sorry, couldn't resist
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Plextor 40/12/40
soon to be joined by:
Plextor 24/10/40
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:23 pmglock20rocks wrote:Hmm...Apparently, Toms Hardware, Maximum PC, and alot of other sources are wrong about Plex's being based on Sanyo's previously.
Quote:
"Plextor makes our own drives. We OEM them to other companies at times!
We've never used any Sanyo drive as a 'base' drive and OEM'd it ... SKC,
the parent company of Plextor, is a major manufacturer of motors, etc in
Japan and many other companies use our parts in their drives.
yeah.
i think the confusion arises (in part, at least) because Plextor uses BURN-Proof, which is a Sanyo technology. Plextor licensed it fron Sanyo and uses it in their drives.
i think this is the only thing Sanyo about Plextor drives.
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:28 pmdodecahedron wrote:yeah.
i think the confusion arises (in part, at least) because Plextor uses BURN-Proof, which is a Sanyo technology. Plextor licensed it fron Sanyo and uses it in their drives.
i think this is the only thing Sanyo about Plextor drives.
Yeah, probably...but I remember hearing that when I bought my then-cutting edge 8x20 SCSI Plextor drive, which had no buffer underrun protection at all...oh well!
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:30 pmdodecahedron wrote:Plextor Rulez!
Hell yeah they do! Never again will I think about buying, or recommend someone else buy, a Lite-On.
Now if only Plextor would drop the crappy software bundle and go with Nero...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:33 pmglock20rocks wrote:Now if only Plextor would drop the crappy software bundle and go with Nero...
too bad for you
i got mine with NERO.
Plextor Europe is smarter...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:41 pmIf Plextor drives are so great, why is it that I can't play 
my Black Sabbath CD's backwards at 4x speed...
my Black Sabbath CD's backwards at 4x speed...Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:55 amglock20rocks wrote:Hmm...Apparently, Toms Hardware, Maximum PC, and alot of other sources are wrong about Plex's being based on Sanyo's previously.
Quote:
"Plextor makes our own drives. We OEM them to other companies at times!
We've never used any Sanyo drive as a 'base' drive and OEM'd it ... SKC,
the parent company of Plextor, is a major manufacturer of motors, etc in
Japan and many other companies use our parts in their drives.
Plextor America Support Team - Jack"
Plextor has one hell of good tech support team, too! Got a reply a few minutes after I sent the e-mail! Wow!
I to think I bought a Lite-On instead of a Plextor. Oh well, sure learned my lesson about Lite-Ons. Got my Plextor 48x24x48, and couldn't be happier!!
Plextor burner's are not based on sanyo drive's but they run sanyo chipset as where lite-on etc run mediatek chipset's.