Dear all, Many thanks to those of you who took time to share your experience. Below are the recommendations I received. 1. From William King I have an external EZQuest CDRW 40x12x48 FireWire on my G4 and have had no problems with it. Its case matches the silver G4 case and it sells for ~$220 which is incredible considering that it writes at 40. More info about the burner @ http://www.macgurus.com/products/drives/ezquest.php William C. William King, Jr. FACS core research facility Children's Research Institute, Room 5220 Children's National Medical Center 2. From Phil Barren: Toast Is what is supplied by BDIS on the new MACs with instruments Pb 3. From Maciej Simm <simm@cd4cd8.com> 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. 4. From Nigel Blackhall Follwoing several recommendations I bought a Plexwriter for work and a TDK Cyclone for the office, both connected via ATAPI to a pc ... so far no problems with either (>12 months). Nigel Nigel Blackhall Senior Experimental Officer Plant Science Division School of Biosciences University of Nottingham Sutton Bonnington Campus Lougborough Leicestershire tel +44 (0) 115 9515151 ext 18501 fax +44 (0) 115 9516334 5. From Berend Hooibrink I bought a LaCie cd-writer with firewire interface. Because my G3 facstation was not equipped with a firewire port, I bought also a firewire PCI card. Installation was very easy including the driver for the pci card. It all runs perfect with OS 9.2 (youd need at least OS9 because of the firewire support) and I wait for my cd's, it's burning in a few minutes a complete data cd (speed:32/10/40). Good luck, Berend Ing. Berend Hooibrink Flow Cytometry Facility Sanquin Research at CLB Plesmanlaan 125 1066CX AMSTERDAM The Netherlands tel:31(0)20-5123435/5123314 fax:31(0)20-5123310 email: B_Hooibrink@CLB.NL
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