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Plextor First With A 12x DVD+R Drive

Posted by timothy on from the far-faster-than-average-burners-remember dept.

Tesko writes "It seems the first 12x DVD+R drive has been released by none other than Plextor, with their Model PX-712A (Product link here). The drive's write speed includes, 48X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 12X DVD+R, 8X DVD-R, 4X DVD+RW, 4X DVD-RW. And it's read speed comes in at 48X CD-ROM/CD-R, and 16X DVD-ROM. Also noteworthy, the drive apparently has a 8MB buffer."

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  1. A friendlier link by Spad · · Score: 5, Informative

    European Page sans-flashing.

    You'll also note that us lucky non-US customers get a 2-year On-Site collect and return warranty. Woo!

  2. Re:Does it run on GNU/Linux? by niko9 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are these devices standard? Can i just put it in my box and use it?

    yes. And with the 2.6 kernels, you don't even need SCSI emulation any longer.

    enjoy

  3. Dead Technology! by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 5, Informative

    12x speed is very nice but this is still a single layer dvd writer. The first of the dual layers will be out in a few weeks. Sony is sceduled to be out the 16th. You can already preorder it. The specs this beast are nice but its dead on the floor. Wait till the dual layer is here then they will be giving them away.

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    Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification

  4. My G4 burns 4xDVD-R at 1x - ouch by Basehart · · Score: 5, Informative

    My G4 is writing 2 minute videos to 4xDVD-R's as I write this and it turns out the recent firmware "update" to the Pioneer superdrive means that 4x disks now write at 1x, which makes me realize yet again that I MUST READ THE READ ME's before buying a 50 pack of 4x blank DVD-R media.

    Hopefully Apple will start making faster DVD burners standard in their G5's very soon now!

  5. Re:I'd never buy one of these! by croddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    open the URL 'about:config'
    filter for 'blink'
    browser.blink_allowed : set to "false"