cd-rw's

[rock8785]

why are external cd-rw's so expensive, and they are slower than internal's?

[otheos]

External units come it three flavors:

Parallel: max 6-2-2 (limited to 600KB/s)*
USB: max 8-4-4 (limited 1200KB/s)*
SCSI: as fast as internal.

*could burn faster (4x parallel and 8x USB) but these values are upper limits and you know how sensitive CD burning is.

So if you need fast external drives SCSI is the only way (look at Plextors 32-12-10 USCSI)

Why they are expensive? well you pay extra for the housing, the PSU and cables (and terminator if SCSI).

[rock8785]

Most likely I will have to get a usb, cause I am 98% sure I dont have a SCSI port. The external ones I have seen are 4x4x6. Are they on the same level as internals, what I mean is, is a 4x4x6 external as fast as a 8x8x24 internal?

[This message has been edited by rock8785 (edited 12-03-2000).]

[Imperion1]

If you don't have a scsi card with an external port then you don't have a scsi port.

A 4x4x6 external (4 speed write, 4 speed rewrite, 6 speed read) is slower than a 8x8x24 internal (8 speed write, 8 speed rewrite, 24 speed read).