Plextor's high standards for dependability and performance are also now available for CD-Recording. The Plexwriter 8/20 writes your data at 8X and reads at a maximum speed of 20X. ... more
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early writer Review ofPlextor PlexWriter CD-R driveby
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Advantages: Plextor are THE cdwriters Disadvantages: its old now and there are better available
...My high opinion of Plextor drives is founded on this drive. Lets hope modern Plextor drives are up to the standard of this one.
The only downer is that scsi installation was tricky. It seemed to prefer the scsi cards with built in cache to those without. I can't explain why but would guess that the timeouts on its scsi connection were perhaps slighltly too fast. One reason I liked the drive so much was that a PSX game was copied on various writers ...
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1 x headphones - output - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x headphones - output - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
1 x audio - line-out - 4 PIN MPC
Connections: 1 x storage - Fast SCSI - 50 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x front accessible - 5.25" x 1/2H, 1 x internal - 5.25" x 1/2H
Manufacturer's product description
Plextor's high standards for dependability and performance are also now available for CD-Recording. The Plexwriter 8/20 writes your data at 8X and reads at a maximum speed of 20X. The combination of a Fast SCSI burst rate, low CPU utilization, a large 4MB buffer and synchronous data transfer all add up to increase the efficiency and the reliability of CD writing. The PlexWriter 8/20 supports all major recordable CD-R discs and allows the reading of CD TEXT information as provided on the latest Audio CD's.
OS Required: IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, UNIX, Microsoft Windows 95/98, Novell NetWare 3.11 or later, SunSoft Solaris, Apple MacOS, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, UNIX, IBM OS/2 Warp, Microsoft Windows 95/98, Novell NetWare 3.11 or later, SunSoft Solaris, Apple MacOS
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 1 year warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - parts and labour - 1 year - carry-in
I brought this discs for about £6 or £7, assuming they would work fine... BUT, 3 computers would only read them as about 90mb, what's going on here? All drivers up to date etc. So, they were just led on a shelf doing nothing for ages... Then, when I... more
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