just took The Plunge, was Re: [geeks] Recommendations?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:57:58PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 04:41 , Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >  So what's the best thing to do...I hate IDE...should I sell my SCSi
> >burner and go with a Firewire CDR when I can afford it?
> 
> I stuck my SCSI 8x20 on a Sun and got a Yamaha Firewire setup from OWC.  
> 16x10x40, and I love it.  If you burn lotsa CD's, it's nice.  Also, 
> firewire does have the advantage of being hot-pluggable, so I can move 
> it from my G4 to my wife's G3 laptop w/o any reboots, burn her a backup, 
> and stick it back onto my system.

In theory, SCSI is hot plugable.  Had good results hot plugging a CD-Rom
among non Windows systems.
 
> It's also better for ripping - I get 6x using the internal DVD-RAM, I 
> get 8-9x using the external CD.

I've gotten the best ripping results from a CreativeLabs IDE drive.  I've
never tried ripping with my Plextor though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd