CD-RW Question

[RaWrulez]

Im sure it's been asked a million times but here goes again.

Which do i get SCSI 16X burner
or IDE/ATA 32X burner

Price is pretty much the same. With IDE i'd have to get a ATA100 CARD for my system. If that affects anyone's opinion. I know a few years ago SCSI was worth the extra money, but now burnproof etc is ATA better for the speed increase?


thanks for all the help.

 

[guzik]

If you plan to use it (copy, burn, whatever) while performing other intensive tasks SCSI may work better, thanks to much lower CPU utilization and not interfering with your IDE read-writes. Otherwise, 32x IDE will perform much better.

 

[corkyg]

The 32X IDE will burn faster than the 16X SCSI provided the media is good and you have no errors. I have had three SCSI burners, two Firewire, and now a USB 2.0. I have always avoided IDE burners because they are really not as reliable. Burn-proof came along and helped, but the CPU involvement and potential conflicts still happen. Most of the burner "X" ratings are somewhat hoeky anyway - they are not based on a constant rotational velocity, but rather at an optimum point. The rest of the actual performance is less than rated.

Looking ahead, I would probably look hard at a good USB 2.0 - about 24X, and not bother with SCSI. I have alwaqys had SCSI on all my systems until 1394 and USB 2 - then I got rid of SCSI which required a dedicated IRQ. I would keep looking at ALL options.