Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.scsi
Titolo: Plextor CDR 4x12 need an opinion please......

To anyone reading this.
I am interested in buying a cdr-cdrw. Right now I "like" Plextor cdr 4x12.
I have been checking newsgroups the last few days (learning quite a lot
actually) but never heard something good or bad about Plex.
Any personal opinions about this drive please?
I am mostly inerested in making audio cds, so this benefit is most valuable.
Currently I also need it to have good-perfect- DAE (audio extraction) since
right now I can`t afort the extra price of a good cdrom. I heard that Plex
32TSI is ok in DAE, but is this also safe to asume about Plex cdr 4x12?
Any other  SCSI cdr(w) with these qualifications?
Is the yamaha cdrw 2260 and 4260 any reliable in DAE?
Any honest sugestion is mostly appreciated.

HEAT!! I had a Plextor 8x CD-ROM drive and when it overheated
with a CD in a caddy, I sent it back to Plextor. I got a
replacement back that did the same thing. I was moving large
amounts of data to my scsi HD when it wouldn't go past 300 megs
without choking. I also tried a 12X CD-ROM drive and this too was
crap. BOTH were used with a dual fan (blowing in) just above the
drive and a home made fan (ducted) blowing up from underneath,
but draws air in from the front. It was so hot that my CD was
heat crazed as I could see tiny cracks in the media. It was well
past 'ouch' point and wouldn't read any disks until it cooled
down for a while. NEVER had any problems with current drives like
most SCSI and IDE with 32x speed, or a Yamaha 2X CD writer. Most
people claim to have no problems, but when you have 3 different
Plextor drives do the same thing, you begin to wonder..
Ken
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Plextor drives do the same thing, you begin to wonder..
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 >> Any honest sugestion is mostly appreciated.
Well actually if I do that and push air out, it will labor through the
PS and several other places. My case design is such that the PS is AT
style which blows air OUT the back. ATX power supply/cases blow air
INTO the case. When I tried reversing fans (ps and another on back),
the internal temps climbed to over 100 degrees and there was little air
movement inside. Reversed the front fans and rear fans and it dropped
down to about 78 degrees. In effect, air gets pulled in from the front
through several fans and blows out the back through several fans. Even
for that, the cover was off at one point, with the Plextor in a slot
with nothing above or below it and it still cooked CDs after about 300
megs of continous access. My comments were made for the 8X PLEXTOR and
12X PLEXTOR CD ROM drives. In my comparison of 32X NEC IDE type drive
was that the IDE CDROM never did this. I am well awar of ventilation
and can accuratly measure internal temps in all areas inside the case
as well as monitoring any air forced out of the case through fans.
Ken

 Any honest sugestion is mostly appreciated.
  I've got the plexwriter 4x12 external and am very happy with it.  I use it
under NT 4 with Adaptec Easy CD Creator Deluxe all the time for audio
cd's, extracting audio for mp3's, and data, it works flawlessly.  I don't know
about internal's if you were looking at one of those.  One thing I really
like about this drive is that it has a dip switch on the back that lets you
change its block transfer size so you can boot a Sun/Macintosh off of it
or switch it back to PC block size.  It comes in caddy or tray, I got the
caddy version which comes with a kind of modified caddy that simulates
a tray loader, it makes it slightly more convenient then a straight caddy
drive.
Dave

 actually) but never heard something good or bad about Plex.
I've always thought of Plextor as being a "top of the line" CD device, and
priced accordingly.  I purchased a 12x about a year ago and added a 412c one
week ago, and both work flawlessly.  A friend also purchased two and is happy,
claiming that the NG's he's frequented lean toward the idea that Plexiwriters
are very tolerant of different brands and quality levels of media, unlike some
others.  Mine writes to Memorex flawlessly, but that's the only brand I've tried
on it.