DVD/CD Writers

[Collins Richey]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:00:12 +0100 (CET)
Javier Hernandez <fjherna at europa3.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:07 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > > On Mon January 12 2004 10:31 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > > > > Thanks.  A couple of grand is more than I want <G>.  I've used
> > > > > Plextor CD burners (SCSI) for a long time and like them.
> > > >
> > > > I have a Plextor  708A  which burns both + and -  and seems to
> > > > work very well. Have had it for about 3 months.
> > >
> > > I've had very good luck with Yamaha, although i heard a rumor that
> > > they're no longer manufacturing CDRW drives.
> >
> > I've got a SONY DVD RW DRU-500A that works great!  The Sony DVD
> > burners come with 8MB buffer as opposed to the 2MB buffers in other
> > burners.  (I'm not sure that matters; but it sounds good.)
> 
> I got SONY DVD RW DRU-500A too, one year ago and I am quite happy with
> it.
> 
> It does not like some specific media makes (specially for burning at
> x4).
> 
> Before buying it I checked http://www.dvdrhelp.com where I found
> different comments of DVD burners.
> 

I also have a SONY DRU-510A which works great for me, but I've only used
it to burn CD media.  It even works with some older, unused CD-RW media
that I have lying around!  My previous CD writer refused to work with
this media.

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