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Old 27th March 2003, 23:15   #1  |  Link
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DVD burners to replace a DVD-ROM drive

As you may know, I recently purchased a Shuttle XPC (barebone computer) that has only one 5.25" slot so I need a drive that is good for everything. It has to fullfil the following criteria:
1) RPC-1 firmware must be available
2) Resonable CD burning performance (16x or higher for CD-R, 10x for CD-RW)
3) Reasonable CD reading speed and access time
4) Reasonable DVD reading speed including CSS encrypted dual layer DVDs (8x or more)

I guess I'm asking for the impossible but you never know. My trusty Pioneer 104 which I currently have in use writes CD-Rs slow as hell, doesn't do 4x DVDs and most importantly rips CSS encrypted DVDs at 2x speed (I used to have a Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM in my old PC so you know what performance I'm expecting when reading DVDs
I also have a Sony DRU-500A in my 2nd computer, and while it does 4x and writes CD-R/Ws at reasonable speed it only rips DVDs at 2x and there's no RPC-1 fimware yet. The situation is essentially the same for the Pioneer 105/A05, and at least the RPC situation is the same for every recent DVD±R/W drive but the firmware situation may change one day so the most important would be to have at least reasonable CD writing and DVD reading capabilities. Does anybody know a DVD burner that can go beyond reading encrypted DVD-9s at 2x speed?
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