Your Advice required

[Ceeffa]

Hi Fellow members
Which would you buy?

Creative CD-RW blaster 8432
CD-R x8
CD-RW x4
CD-ROM x32

comes with:
one CD-R disc and one CD-RW disc.
Also included a full CD labelling kit, with labels, software and applicator, allowing you to finish off your CD's with your own personalised and professional label designs.

Software:
NERO 4.0 Burning ROM CD Creator
Prassi abCD

or

Memorex Tri-MAXX 2000 Combo (also has Ricoh lable on it)

CD-R x6
CD-RW x4
CD-ROM x24
DVD x4

Software:
Adaptec EasyCD creater
DirectCD

They are both around the same price..

Thank for your advice

Ceeffa


[This message has been edited by Ceeffa (edited 07-17-2000).]

[Roy]

Neither. I'd buy the fastest CDR available ~ 12x? . Media is cheap, time isn't.

[SoopaStar]

Will you use the DVD player? if not, go withthe HP i suppose. I don't use the CDRW portion of my HP 8200i, so my next purchase will be a super fast (maybe even scsi) CDR drive.
Paul

[Roy]

Paul ~ SCSI won't make a CDR faster until write speeds skyrocket.

The problem with burners is the weight of the read/write head. Read-only can function much faster because it is simpler.

[Ceeffa]

Thanks for your input guys http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by Ceeffa (edited 07-18-2000).]

[linux_guru]

Go for the Creative. It comes with Nero. Easy CD Creator is flaky. Broke my Win2K install.

[Axel]

I'm a little jaded on creative drives at the moment - went through 2 bad ones 2 weeks ago rebuilding my home system - both relatively new and neither one abused - got so fed up I went out and bought a generic 48 speed CD player to complete the rebuild....

HP CDR/CDRW- I've never had any trouble - they make a solid drive, but it costs a bit more.

can attest to easyCD creator being flaky.... haven't had anything else to play with....