16X AND FRISBIE FREE!
Written: Jul 12 '01 (Updated Jul 28 '01)
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Pros: CD burns in 5 minutes!!! NO FRISBIES!!! Rips really fast!
Cons: None whatsoever!
The Bottom Line: Sure it doesn't look fancy and the software is mediocre, but the performance is absolutely beautiful!
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| mobomofo's Full Review: Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A CD-RW Burner |
What can I say? I'm impressed! I've heard all these horror stories about IDE burners- but then I started reading up on the Plextor drives. I had my friends telling me I should stick with SCSI and that I'd be sorry, but I'm not! I've had this for a few months now and have yet to burn a single frisbie!
The only thing with IDE devices is that they take up a lot of resources, but if you have the patience to wait a mere 5mins, who cares, right?
I must recommend getting faster software than that of which comes with the drive. CloneCD is really good. It's actually faster to use the same drive to both rip and write rather than to piggyback off of another CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, because don't forget- it's also a 40x drive! I ended up getting rid of my 52x Creative drive because I simply didn't need it anymore. The Plextor is self sufficient!!!
Even if you have a really fast CD or DVD-ROM drive, you will want to use the same drive for both ripping and writing so you get bit-for-bit copying- unless of course you had two of these puppies. I wouldn't recommend it, financialy speaking, but I've heard of people doing this.
To each his own, I guess, right? ;)
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 180.00
Operating System: Windows
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