Mandag 17 maj 2004 23:20 skrev John Heffington:

I am going thru the list of available CD-ROM and CDRW drives and finding that 99% are either SCSI or not available. I need to know a good drive so I can have music playback in SUSE 9.0. Thanks! I cannot talk for any other drives but two, and I don't want to start flames either, I'll just give you my experience.

1. I have an LG 48x24x48 (made by Hitachi at the mo, which seems to be a lot better than the older LG CD-ROM, whoever made them). I've had it since December 2002, I burn upwards on 10 CDs per day. It's still working like day one. It's very quiet, and, what probably impresses me most, is that it's incredibly good with damaged discs. I have discs that no other drives would read properly, some drives don't even see them. The LG reads it prefectly. It plays CDs, and it rips CDs quite fast. cdparanoia, with paranoia disabled, rips through a 80-minute audio CD in 6 odd minutes. Maximum paranoia on a badly scratched takes about 20 minutes, and again, it works pretty good (much better than my previous CD drives). 2. I installed a 40x Plextor IDE writer (I can't remember its RW and read speed) for a client, into a dedicated CD writer machine, which every one in the company uses. There are about 50 people doing their backups on it, and everybody uses it to copy CDs for his brother, the neigbour and whoever else. I've never seen that drive not working, it's in constant use from early in the morning until very late at night. You can't go wrong. Just my experience, hope it helps -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 13:36, Fred Miller wrote:

On Tuesday May 18 2004 5:57 am, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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2.  I installed a 40x Plextor IDE writer (I can't remember its RW and read speed) for a client, into a dedicated CD writer machine, which every one in the company uses.  There are about 50 people doing their backups on it, and everybody uses it to copy CDs for his brother, the neigbour and whoever else.   I've never seen that drive not working, it's in constant use from early in the morning until very late at night.   You can't go wrong.

Agreed! Plextor has been the most solid stable burner for sometime. Once DVD standards are more stable, I'll get a DVD PleXWriter.

Fred

Me too, have a 16/10/40 PleXWriter here, works beautifully. Fergus

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