Doc

As there are so many IT people out there I wonder if you can help me?

I am after a CD Rewriter for my home PC. Should I get an IDE or SCSI rewriter? I already have a scsi ultrawide card in my PC but my Hard disk and DVD drive are EIDE.

Any recommendations?
I don't really want to spend more than £200.

Gethin

Go for the SCSI since you have the UW controller. Much faster. Loads to choose from....try Ricoh MP9060A-DP for £160 in VAT from Simply Computers 0870 727 4020

supports CDR-CDRW-DVD

Reads at x24
Writes at x6
Rewrites at x4
DVD at x4

Gethin.

GavinP

Doc,

A good site to look at is

AllanB

Definitely go the SCSI route.I'd recommend the Yamaham 8x/8x/24x which is a similar price to the Ricoh. Have a look at

Doc

Thanks for the replies so far.

AllanB - I currently only have a scanner attached to the SCSI card.

ChrisB

Our HP IDE writer just seems to have gone up the creek at work, so we've got in one of the new Plextor IDE writers. We've flogged a number of these already and the really kick ***. Dabs.com do them - part code is PX-W8432TI retail boxed, 32 x read, 8 x write, 4 x re-write for £139 + VAT. The Plextor SCSI burners are very good as well (IMHO of course!), but they are £198 + VAT.

Lee

Mine just bit the dust, so went out and bought a nice ultra160 dual-channel card, whilst i was in the need-for-speed mode I bought a 12x4x32 plextor SCSI. nice ! cost me £206

always always go for SCSI, they have more features and are better supported.

Mick

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WOT if you don't have a SCSI card already. Is it worth getting the card to run a SCSI unit?

Mick

AllanB

You can pick up a basic adaptec SCSI card of decent spec for under £40. SCSI just seesm to be more reliable and gives you a wider choice of drives nad if you want to add something like a scanner at a later date will give you superior perfomance over SCSI or USB


AllanB

Lee

SCSI writers usually have more features..depends on what u want to do...things like fast audio extraction, subcodes/cdtext although ide ones are catchin up.

but the real reason is that all the serious cdr software goes best with scsi drives.

my 12x writer only needs ultrascsi (the 50pin) so you can pick up a card for £40 like Allan says.

without yarnin on it depends on what u have in your pc. A non-scsi pc is okay if u have one hard drive (hard drive and cdrom on one ide channel, writer on other) but if u have a number of drives then bus contention is an issue.

scsi has always been the choice of pros, but at a cost !

Nick

I agree with Chris on the IDE Plextor 8432 internal drive. It's good enough to be used as the sole CD drive... unless you want to make copies....

blue scoo ste

Ant

You've just posted on a thread from 2000 you pleb

P1Fanatic

New something was up when they started talking about SCSI lol

Ant

the price threw me off

bioforger

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10yrs ago, is this a thread revival record? pleb lol

bigsinky

And in the wrong section. SCSI ffs. Get that 500 mb Winchester hard drive hooked up as well

Coffin Dodger

Amazes me how much stuff has moved on in a short space of time. Remember when I started work PC hard drives were only a few 100Mb and CD-ROM hardly existed, wish I could go back in time and show myself my mobile phone that can hold 32GB of data on a tiny card the size of your little finger nail

SwissTony

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You are lucky, I had to deal with years of Syquest drives, 44MB of pure hurt and pain. It was a bloody revelation when zip drives appeared !!

blue scoo ste

yeah all read it though didnt you ha ha

bioforger

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yea but is that as bad as replying to a post from 2K without realising?

Gregsti01

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I think it is still amazing who techno has evolved my Nokia N8 runs 64 gb MSD card handles more music than most people have played,Heh Swiss Tony sometimes small is better n8 is smaller but what performance

dunx

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10 Mb hard drive for the 8086 IBM PC was over £1000

NAF

Ahahahaha!!!

I was reading away until I got to the prices and thought WTF???