burn proof cd writing

[Donkey]

Does anyone know whether these new burn proof cd writers actually work. Got any experiences? I'm looking for a recommendation for a mate of a reasonable cheap IDE burner and i thought this burn proof stuff would be better as it is going to be IDE.
CHeers
Rod

[Szech]

The reviews I read rated it pretty well. It stops burning when the buffer doesn't have enough information in it (I think below 10%), and starts up again when it is ready. It won't prevent misburns from shaking the computer, but you shouldn't be doing that in the first place.

[elroy]

I had a lot of problems with bad burns when I had a 2X2X6 w/ 1mb cache. I bought a new 8X4X32 Samsung w/4mb cache [$150 U.S.] and don't have any problems. I saw someone has a new 8X4X32 w/ 8mb. I don't remember who. The cache is the key to good burns.

[jad1097]

Here is a reveiw. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article.asp?aid=18621&pg=4

This uses a technolgy call "burn-proof". Which works awesome from what I have read.

but we did kick Burn-Proof's tires thoroughly this month, and it works as advertised. We're happy to report that nothing we've tried so far, including playing audio and video files during the burn process, has resulted in a single CD-Recordable write failure due to a buffer underrun.

[This message has been edited by jad1097 (edited 10-06-2000).]

[awwall]

Yep, at least the Plextor does. Bought the 12X10X32 and put it through every test you can imagin. On the web while burning, word processing, spreadsheets, etc. and not one coaster yet. Plextor has the new Burn-Proof technology.

aw

[otheos]

BURN PROOF technology is a SANYO patent and since all Plextor units use Sanyo laser/optical technology with SHINANO KENSHI (Plextor parent company) motors, they have now adopted this feature to the latest ATA drives. 12x writing is a demanding task even for hard drives (not to mention all those DAE disabled CDROMs that people buy unaware of their disability .i.e Creative) so this technology prevents coaster making.

AFAIK it works perfectly on data disks but there are issues with audio CD's giving a noise where the laser stopped and where it resumed (midtrack). This is not the end of the world: whenever you burn an AUDIO CD, just pretend that BURN PROOF isn't there and try avoiding buffer underruns to avoid BURN PROOF stopping the laser midtrack. This is not too much to ask is it now (you can just alternatively buy a non Burn PROOF burner that will just give you a coaster on a buffer underrun)

My 2c, go for it. (eventhough SCSI is always better in burners, but lets not argue about that here http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif)