On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>
> I would agree that the Plextors are also an excellent drive. But unless
> you plan on putting other devices on the SCSI bus, SCSI is an expensive
> way to go just for CDRW. I guess some of us have more money than
> others:-) And as pointed out earlier, SCSI doesn't really provide a
> performance advantage for CDRW drives (nor even much if any for
> harddisks, either, unless you have a disk array). I have been using the
> Plexwriter 8/4/32A IDE drive with great success.
>
My 2 cents -- if you are trying to do anything else while using an
IDE CDR/RW, you stand a chance of buffer underruns and thus
"coastering" your CD blank. OTOH, it's my understanding that because
SCSI works differently than IDE, you have less chance of buffer
underruns when doing other things.
If you're willing to just start the CD burning and walk away for
15-30 minutes, that's fine with IDE, but I'd rather be doing other
things while the CD burns. :-)
John
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