Inexpensive CD-R drive recommendations?

[hella356]

Anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive 4X CD-R drive? Something under $200? Thanks.

[Joachim]

Yamaha still is delivering CDR400t, but only the few they've left. Try out www.alternate.de. This is a german shop where you still can get one (I hope so 'cause I ordered one yesterday). It will cost about $160 as bulk

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[Jammrock]

I will make a suggestion, but it is slightly higher priced than you suggested: http://www.plextor.com/8432cdrw.htm .

First off, Plextor makes the best CD-ROM/R/RW drives in the world, hands down! If you look at the recommended drives in the readme's for CD-R burning software, 90% of the time they say get a Plextor if you can afford it, a Yamaha or HP if you can't, anything else, good luck. And since this ATAPI/IDE burner is in a very affordable price range, it is a good buy.

Second, it does 14x-32x read, 8x write and 4x re-write, which makes it one of the fastest burners on the market.

Third, it comes with great software that lets you do just about everything. Disk duplication, data backup, audio CD's, the works.

Fourth, it can burn and read anything. Look at the list of stuff it can do. You will be hard pressed to find a better burner, SCSI or otherwise.

I just bought one of these puppies and it is AWESOME!!!! Right now they are retailing for around $225 USD. I bought mine for $232, but since then they have dropped a little (plus shipping it will run about $250 total). You will not regret this purchase! Here are a few links to people who sell them:

www.compuplus.com
http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10229213
http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/skusea...225819&bop=and

Jammrock

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PIII 450@504, 256 MB RAM, 35 GB total w/ WD Experts, Abit UDMA 66 controller, CL 6x DVD, PLEXTOR 8x4x32 ATAPI CD-RW (my newest toy), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, LinkSys Etherfast 10/100, DSI 56k modem, Addtronics 6896A Case w/ a crap load of fans and Dynmat noise dampening, MAG DX715T monitor.

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[DentyCracker]

You can get an AOPEN CRW 9624 (Ricoh 7060A) for US$175 at www.mwave.com . They are pretty good, and burn at up to 6X on CD-R and 4X on CD-RW

[specialk]

I am selling an HP 8110i cdrw drive. It is a 4x2x24 ide drive. I got a Plextor scsi cdrw a while ago instead, but the HP has been a great drive. Email milk@webzone.net if interested.

[alessandro]

Buy a extremely cheap Ricoh 7040A and tranform it into a 7060A with just a firmware tweak.
Mine is the more expensive SCSI one and i've tweak it from 4x4x20 to a super stable 6x4x24
So i've got a Ricoh MP7060S instead of a MP7040S

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Pentium II 450Mhz@504,Asus P2B rev.1011,17" Sony Multiscan 200PST,128MB PC100 ram,Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB 5ns SGRAM,Quantum Firebal EL 10.2Gb,Epson Stylus Color 740,Sound blaster Live!,Cambridge Soundworks 5.1,Creative PC-DVD 5X,Ricoh MP7040S,Adaptec SCSI 2920C,Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO,Iomega Zip Drive.

[chihuang]

I strongly recommend the RICOH's 70X0 A/S series as inexpensive and well-performed. I have my RICOH 7040S for about 3/4 year and wrote at least 300 CD-ROMs and did not have any problem (except those experiments with burning copy-protected CD-ROMs, d*mn). Recently I am thinking about upgrading it to 7060S (that's true as the message above, you can do it free by updating the firmware) and that's the best thing you can consider about. Or just get a 7060 A/S and save you some risk and time doing the updating.

[This message has been edited by chihuang (edited 16 December 1999).]

[alessandro]

for the 7040-->7060 you just need a little program named Rmorph!!!!!!!!Ricoh by the way is one of the best CDR manufacturers...if i'm not wrong they manufactured the first CDR drive.....
Chinhuang...you sould try it!!
In my SCSI Ricoh i'm 6x for one month now and i had NONE of any problems(i can burn a 650MB CDR from 17,6 min that i used to,to 11,8 min now )

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Pentium II 450Mhz@504,Asus P2B rev.1011,17" Sony Multiscan 200PST,128MB PC100 ram,Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB 5ns SGRAM,Quantum Firebal EL 10.2Gb,Epson Stylus Color 740,Sound blaster Live!,Cambridge Soundworks 5.1,Creative PC-DVD 5X,CDR-RW Ricoh MP7040S@MP7060S(Tweaked from 4x--->6x with no problem),Adaptec SCSI 2920C,Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO,Iomega Zip Drive.

[DentyCracker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, did the same to my AOPEN CRW9420, turned it into a MP7060A. Going to sell it though and get the 7060S or Yamaha CDRW 6416S (they are only US$189 at www.dirtcheapdrives.com > Am in the process of trying to use clonecd, seems easy enough to use. That SD M-1212 is what I get my clients as their CD-ROM drive. it will read a lot of disks that other drives have kittens over.

[This message has been edited by DentyCracker (edited 17 December 1999).]

[merchant2112]

i have an old memorex 1622 (the one that is 2x2x6 rewiteable it works with cdclone the memorex 40 (402e) cd rom drive as a reader even reads digital ids and extra audio data.) i copyed hl opposing force with no problem (and did not need a cd patch) i just checked pricewatch the drive can be picked up for 120.00 (hey i was even copying playstation games with drive. so far i have yet to run into a cd i cannot copy with the memorex drive. (note it is slow 2x max burn speed and i dont use it a a reader 6x read speed) but i tdose fall into the cheap good catagory.

[MartinS]

I'd try and go for a scsi rather than an IDE if you can. You can get cheap non-bootable (no BIOS) scsi cards and due to less contention on the bus over scsi vs ide you're less likely to burn coasters if your screen scaver kicks in or you use your PC whilst burning.

Ide basically says - I want to write to drive D. That's the only thing I'm going to do on this chanel until it's finished.

Scsi basically says Ok I want to write to drive D add it to the list of things to do and carry on doing what you were doing anyway sending this new data as well.

The sum total of this is that you're less likely to get a buffer underrun on scsi than ide. Correct me if I'm wrong plz - and I'm sure you all would

[Jammrock]

SCSI is good for people who do not care about money. I on the otherhand do not have unlimited resources. I am running UDMA 66 and it works great.

I said it before I'll say it again...Buy Plextor if you have the cash, Yamaha if you don't, then HP and so forth.

Quote: "We only recommend Plextor drives because of their high quality and almost flawless firmware." -Goldenhawk Tech (CD-R burning software company). www.goldenhawk.com/faq_body.htm#drive

Jammrock

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PIII 450@504, 256 MB RAM, 35 GB total w/ WD Experts, Abit UDMA 66 controller, CL 6x DVD, PLEXTOR 8x4x32 ATAPI CD-RW (my newest toy), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, LinkSys Etherfast 10/100, DSI 56k modem, Addtronics 6896A Case w/ a crap load of fans and Dynmat noise dampening, MAG DX715T monitor.

Hi, my name is Jammrock. I'm a computer phreak and an EverCrack addict.