On 21 Jan 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > If you found a yamaha model that's affordable, _Get_it!_ Those are > > oh, by affordable I mean it's under 600 EUR... maybe I've seen also > non-rewritable models under 400 EUR, VAT included
Sorry, I don't know the conversion factor yet, I paid 215$US for my CDD-2600, so pretty darn cheap. (2X6 read/write) > > excellent machines. They are closely followed in quality by Philips and > > I've had bad experience with philips crap in the past... Check goldenhawk, they list good/bad philips drives. The CDD-2600 beyond firmware 1.07 they say is a good drive (and that's what I based my decision on). So far, no problems and I've sent about 300 discs through this thing. (probably made about 10 coasters). But if you've got a bad taste in your mouth WRT philips, stay away from HP too. HP's drives are slightly disabled philips models (usually don't support all the modes). > > Also, IMHO, a SCSI writer is vastly superior to an IDE. In general, they > > support more modes, can be external (so if for some reason it refuses to > > eject a disc--I've had that happen--you can power-cycle the driver w/o > > losing your uptime). There are many other reasons such as stability, but > > since I don't fully understand those reasons, I won't pretent to talk > > about them. > I didn't ever even thought of wasting my money on an IDE writer :-) > The suggestion about external ones is interesting, though. > > Good luck! > > (subliminal message --- psst.. buy the yamaha) > aren't you satisfied with your Philips ? The philips is nice, but I'd trade for a yamaha for two reasons: 1. CD+G (not that I'd ever use it, I'd just like to be able to), 2. yamaha usually does caddy systems while philips only does tray. (a 10$ caddy is a lot nicer to replace than a 200$ writer). -Dan