No more SCSI Devices from Plextor :(

[isochar]

https://www.cdrinfo.com

For which company you wish to keep reading interesting news? I think i have read your mind... Let’s start:

1) Our original post about Plextor's ML recorder (PX-ML3630) had few errors in the posted specs, as we expected. The current information says that, possible, the reading speed will increased up to 40x. That will enable faster reading times in both CD and (3X) [ML] formats. Our announce shipping date for December 2001, seems early. Q1 of 2002 is more realistic (February 2002 seems the magic month). ML recorders will support reading of DVD format. We don’t know if the first batch of drives will include it or not. We will know in about one month, when the official press release come out

The real question here is how much succeful ML format would be, with so many DVD+RW drives shipping next month. Original plans supposed to have ML recorders out in November of 2001! The 6 months of delay could be proven fatal for ML recording format...

2) Plextor 24x SCSI recorder. Will it come? Yes/No/When? The answer is easy according to Plextor:

"...Our PleXWriter 12/10/32S is the last model that we have developed with a SCSI interface. We have no plans to develop faster SCSI burners. Due to BURN-Proof technology, the demand for SCSI burners decreased a lot. Regarding our 40-speed CD-Rom drive. Also this product will be the last SCSI CD-Rom drive from Plextor. Of course this does not mean that we do not support these products anymore. As long has there will be drives in the market, we will help the customer in the best possible way..."

3) Plextor "DVD-R". A dream comes true? Possible yes. “Shinano Kenshi”, the mother company of Plextor, is a listed member of the new "Recordable DVD Council".

As the company states "...We are preparing for next wave of multimedia information devices with the development of new products, using DVD technology...". The upcoming Plextor DVD-R recorder will support for sure DVD-R (maybe DVD-RW also?) and of course CD(-R/RW) format(s). When you should expect it? We would say add at least 8-10 months. We hope by the end of this year something to be announced officially. I hope you are as much excited as we are :-)

[xortam]

Glad I stopped waiting and went ahead and bought the 12/10/32S. I suppose its fast enough.

[Wombat]

It's a shame to see it go. SCSI is better than IDE. This seems like it will hurt Plextor.

I can think of plenty of people/places where "no more SCSI Plextor" means "no more Plextor," NOT "no more SCSI."

What bothers me is the way they kept denying it. Gee, I wonder why sales of their latest SCSI burner weren't so high? Maybe it was because they led people to believe that a new one was just about to come out.

[xortam]

Originally posted by Wombat
... Maybe it was because they led people to believe that a new one was just about to come out.

I don't think they led people to think that a new one would come out. They only commited to support their current SCSI customers. I bought anyway. I definitely will stick with SCSI still (have since the beginning) and I'll buy from whoever has the best products at the time.

[dZeus]

ah too bad... I'll just switch to Teac if/when my Plextor 12x4x32 wears out. Teac SCSI drives mainly are less good at reading/writing subchannel data, but since I almost never copy CDs, I can live with that. It's the less good DAE and mode-2 support that I will really miss when I lose my Plextor (if it breaks down, I'll let it have repared if possible. Plextor will repair/replace all drives outside of warranty for 100 euro.

[Paulr]

Must admit, I don't like Plextor's attitude here.

I for one would rather have a SCSI CD-RW without BURNProof / SafeBurn etc than an IDE unit with those "all mouth" technologies.
Plextor will loose a lot of customers this way, when I come arround to upgrading to a DVD-RW unit, I shall be purchasing SCSI, no way will I ever go back to IDE for those kind of devices.

[DosFreak]

Looks like I'll be looking elsewhere for my SCSI needs. I hate the current IDE implementation and want SCSI badly but it looks like Serial ATA will not be out in force for another year at the least.....if that. Heck the next implementation is DMA/133 . I'll keep my Plextor 24x IDE until I can find a SCSI burner that's equal to it but considering Plextor is the best I doubt I will.