Whats today's best cd-rw

[ghazi]

hey, im looking for the best ide cd-rw out on the market today. Theres tdk's 24/10/40, but im starting not to like them since i dont like the one i have right now, a tdk 8x cdrw.

 

[Evo7]

Go and try the plextor one or the Ricoh one

 

[konichiwa]

Plex

 

[WildeBeast]

the yamaha 16x has burnproof, and an 8 MB buffer, and is around 110 dollars. Seems like good deal, but plextors are supposed to be great.

 

[bex0rs]

Teac makes nice CD/R/RW drives as well, and they are slightly cheaper than the Plextors.

~bex0rs

 

[dingdongdingdong]

get TEAC or misumi (mitsumi16x8x40 for only 105buck )

 

[dowxp]

plex 12/10 scsi! =)

 

[HYD]

Don't listen to anyone else who doesn't tell you to get a Plextor. The Plextor 16/10/40 CDRW is the best to date.

You can go for the fastest speed... The TDK 24x but it isn't full speed 24x. It starts off at lower speeds and works it's way up to 24x. Go with the Plextor, you will not be disappointed.

 

[bex0rs]

... because we all know that anything but Plextor sucks. Have any of you Plextor zealots ever used anything else? :Q

~bex0rs

 

[crt1530]

Me == buys whatever StorageReview.com tells me to. They are currently recommending the Teac CD-W516EB.

 

[wakko]

plextor is the best out... but tdk and teac aren't bad i would doubt that mitsuimi drive though. i love my teac sczi awww its so sweeett... but yea best drive out is the plextor

 

[esung]

My personal choice would be Plextor SCSI, follow by Yamaha..

 

[AthlonMan]

I would go with a SCSI plextor burner, or yamaha's are nice, but if you don't want to really wsate a lot of money lg's are actually not bad for the money you buy for them.

 

[CAMS]

<< hey, im looking for the best ide cd-rw out on the market today. Theres tdk's 24/10/40, but im starting not to like them since i dont like the one i have right now, a tdk 8x cdrw. >>



OK for a start I have a plextor but I am not going to recommend it even though my old 8/20 works great.

I would say that the best on the market is one that copies everything, meaning safedisk 2 cant be copied by a host of the top of the range recorders including Plextor and Yamaha.

You need something that can copy with (Correct EFM encoding of regular bit patterns)

I think the cheap Acer 2010A may be the choice, think of the money you will save and it has bufferunder Technology.

Go to this site and look at the recorders with EFM. CloneCD

 

[Sundog]

I prefer Plextors. Have not had a problem with them at all.

 

[murdock2525]

<< ... because we all know that anything but Plextor sucks. Have any of you Plextor zealots ever used anything else? :Q

~bex0rs >>


Yea as a matter of fact ! I've installed over a dozen 8*4*32 ZipCD's , a handful of Yamahas,a couple Creatives and a boatload of Plextors.....
Ya want a Lexus or a Geo ? Plextor rulezzzzzzzz !

 

[bex0rs]

Yea as a matter of fact ! I've installed over a dozen 8*4*32 ZipCD's , a handful of Yamahas,a couple Creatives and a boatload of Plextors.....
Ya want a Lexus or a Geo ? Plextor rulezzzzzzzz !

Man, I've installed about 4 IDE Plextors (8-12x), 2 SCSI Yamaha's (16x), 3 IDE ZipCD's (6-12x), 2 IDE Philips (8x), a SCSI Teac (8x), and a handful of 4x or slower IDE drives. Of the recent drives I've installed, I can say that the Plextor's have been nice, but they sure haven't been problem free. Perhaps it was an inherent issue with IDE, but a few of the Plextors were just a pain to get working under Win2k in DMA mode on BX chipset boards. Sure, they would work and make perfect burns every time, but the computer was totally unusable while the disk was being written.

The drive that I've had the best experience with has been my personal SCSI Teac. Yes it's SCSI, and it may be a bit unfair to compare it to IDE, but it's been absolutely solid. I've never had a bad burn on it, and this is a 2+ year old burner without burnproof. In general, Teac is known for making very high quality CD/R/RW drives along with Plextor. Like someone else mentioned, perhaps a visit to StorageReview.com for some hard benchmarks would be helpful instead of relying on our word for it.

BTW, I'd take the smaller Geo in Berkeley. I'd probably be too afraid of the Lexus getting stolen / damaged to ever take it out.

~bex0rs

 

[NelsonMuntz]

<< the yamaha 16x has burnproof, and an 8 MB buffer, and is around 110 dollars. Seems like good deal, but plextors are supposed to be great. >>


The Yamaha 16x DOES NOT have burnproof. It does have a large 8 Mb buffer, but no anti-coaster technology. See here for more information.

 

[nortexoid]

anyone who tells u the the plextor 16x is the best available deserves to be barfed on...

the ricoh mp7200a 20x is one of the best available drives...i haven't seen the 24x drives available anywhere...

 

[CAMS]

<< anyone who tells u the the plextor 16x is the best available deserves to be barfed on...

the ricoh mp7200a 20x is one of the best available drives...i haven't seen the 24x drives available anywhere... >>



Yes, great drive but cant copy safedisk 2 so what is everybody doing? making audio compilations?

 

[kennyG]

OK..my 2 cents
Choices in Order
1)PLextor..best on the planet(scsi &amp; ide)bar none
2)TDK ..my favorite (i have now a 16/10/40x..taste great,less fillin)
3)Ricoh..great drive for the money
4)Yamaha...dit
5) Sanyo..maker of BurnProof..it whips the lama a$$
6)TEAC or Mitsumi both mak good drive and are low in price!
So there you have it :Q

 

[Flat]

I like Lite-On 16x

 

[DynaOne]

I just got the Yamaha 20X (not true 20X over the whole CD), but rotation speeds are lower. Supposedly fixed the issues with the Yamaha 16X which kind of got a bad name.
Installation under Win2K was a piece of cake - no issues.

I've &quot;never&quot; made a coaster with my Yamaha 4X.
DynaOne

 

[ghazi]

aight, thanks for all the info, so wut do u guys all think of the new tdk 24x, im wondering why like none of u recommended it. i know the plex kicks a lot of ass, but this tdk looks blazing fast, so is there some sort of prob or catch with it?