[lug] Cd burner recommendations

[Nate Duehr]

I have a TDK 18X IDE drive and would "ditto" Sean's comments here.  It's
damn near flawless.  I've never confused it nor has it ever burnt a
"coaster" unless I did something stupid.  And it's REALLY fast.

Nate 

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 12:53, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:16:40AM -0700, BOF wrote:
> >It looks like it's time to buy a CD-R, so I am seeking advice on what 
> >would be a good one to get. I would prefer one that works under both 
> >Linux and Windows NT.
> 
> The TDK VeloCD 24x burner.  Ask for it by name.  VERY nice drive, and
> fairly cheap.  A couple of weeks ago, they were $149 with a $20 mail in
> rebate at Circuit City.  It also rips audio at 40X.  I haven't seen audio
> ripping run that fast, but it is down to like 30 seconds for a song.
> 
> It's got some sort of burn-proof thing, and seems able to handle burning
> even if the input buffer runs out of data.  It's been incredibly reliable
> for us.
> 
> I've also had good luck with the older Mitsumi 4x IDE burners (we have 4,
> and have put probably 5k discs through them over 2 years), and not bad luck
> with the Matshita CW-7503 8x SCSI burners (one out of 4 died).
> 
> I had an older Yamaha drive (back in 1997) that I had tons of problems with
> -- it just wouldn't burn reliably.  That was a very long time ago.  More
> recently, maybe 3 years ago, I had a Plextor 8x SCSI burner that was great,
> until it started freaking out.  It replaced the Yamaha above, and I paid
> the premium for the Plextor because of the problems with the Yamaha.  The
> Plextor worked great for about 4 months, until one day it just started
> freaking out.  Plextor was of no help, and even shipped the still
> malfunctioning device back to me after I sent it in for repair.  They were
> saying that it was a problem with the media I was using, but that doesn't
> explain why it started happening all of a sudden, and trying new media
> didn't fix it.
> 
> The TDK has been happy with any media we've given it.
> 
> Sean
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