Re: CD burners

From: Maciej Simm (simm@cd4cd8.com)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 15:31:18 EST


Gouzel,

My humble recommendation is to get a DVD burner instead as they are
becomming more and more cost effective and allow higher data density
per media (no swoapping). The Imation DVDR media is 4.95 USD when
bought individually and "no name" media is as low as $2 per disk in
quantities of 20-50 (check ebay, too)

The QPS Inc. Que drives (firewire and USB 2.0) are around 350-400 USD
and as external drives go, that is a pretty good deal. Some of the
new burners allow CD burning as well. The limitation of firewire is
around 4 megs/sec and the burning goes up to 2.5 megs/sec (internal
drives are faster but not as portable ;) ).

Some of the new G4's ship with the "superdrive" which is the "all in
one" burner, so if you get one of those computers networked then that
will good as well.

As far as stand-alone drives for CD burning go, all of my LaCie
devices (external) and Yamaha or Sony (internal) have excellent
service record with minimal amount of "coasters". It should be noted
that inernal burners on macs are hard to install due to constrains of
the casing.

For blank media, I only use Imation.

This email is not an endorsement and I am not receiving any money
from the companies above to advertise their products.



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