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Affordable SCSI DVD Writers?

Posted by timothy on from the rare-bird-in-the-hand dept.

ByTor-2112 writes: "DVD recorders seem to be ready to break loose on the consumer market, despite the remaining uncertainty about DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM etc. I see ATAPI DVD writers, but I do not warm to IDE/ATA-based technology. When I've got a $10 blank DVD on the line, in SCSI we trust. I have been unable to locate a SCSI DVD writer that falls within the general price range (plus the usual SCSI markup) of the ATAPI burners. Firewire seems nice, but FreeBSD does not support this yet. Anyone seen a drive out there that might fit the bill?" Anyone who can lend hope on the Firewire front is encouraged to speak up here as well.

3 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. Pricewatch by Karma+50 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've looked on Pricewatch right?
    The price ranges for SCSI and ATAPI seem to overlap.

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  2. Why not IDE DVD-R's? by Judg3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At work I use a Pioneer DVR-A03 IDE DVD-R. Currently the fast spec DVD-R can write is 2x. That's roughly 16x CD-ROM speed-wise (2.76mb/s write). I have no problems with it, and I write a lot of files to each DVD. In the range of 40-60,000 small files. Occasionally I've burned large multi-gig files to it to, without a problem. I've had it 4 months and only had 1 disk not burn properly. I also use my pc while its burning, and that hasnt caused a buffer under-run for me yet

    Before that I had a SCSI 1x DVD-R, and it was hell to configure it, what with ASPI and what not. It would easily take me a week to set it up right, but with the A03 it was literally plug it in, install the software, start burning.

    Don't dismiss IDE, it has it's advantages and with such a low data transfer, it doesnt make much sense to go SCSI for this.

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  3. Re:DVD=IDE? by CMiYC · · Score: 3, Informative

    I went with a Toshiba Slot loading DVD player. I never had a problem finding it. Since there are fewer drives on the market, it is reasonable to assume that they might be of higher quaility. If someone is willing to pay extra for a SCSi then they would expct higher quaility

    In any event, I think that this is a moot point. Either they already have a SCSI reader or they will simply use their writer as one. Nor do I think they care if the reader is scsi or not.