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CenDyne debuts FireWire CD-Rw

updated 08:40 am EDT, Mon August 6, 2001

 
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CenDyne has introduced a 24X10X40 FireWire CD-RW drive which sports a 120 ms average access time. CenDyne says the new drive was designed with technology to prevent buffer under-runs, and (like virtually all FireWire devices) is hot-swappable. The drive comes bundled with Toast and is priced at $300.


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    Mechanism?

    Just like monitor makers now divulge actual viewable dimension, I wish external CD-RW "assemblers" would tell us which mechanism is within. It really would have helped a friend of mine, who bought a QPS/Samsung only because he bought it a few weeks after the same box contained a QPS/Plextor 8x CD-RW.

    Either way, I've seen CenDyne stuff all over Fry's Electronics, from drives to media. Is it a decent brand?

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    buffer under-runs

    says the new drive was designed with technology
    to prevent buffer under-runs

    Yeah, it's called 'BurnProof, and almost every single new high-speed CD-Burner has it these days - so no matter how much Cendyne tries to make it sound like it's something spanking-new, and proprietary, nearly every single drive on the market has the same feaure. A note of caution, if you go shopping for mechanisms: some implement it in software, some in hardware. Obviously, hardware is better - some of the better drives out there are the TDK VeloCD drive, and any variety of the LG 16x10x40 drive (hovering around $120-$150)

    Harry

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    specs?

    The article says 24x10x40, but the specs the article points to are 12x10x32. Am I missing something?

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    comments

    jeez, RIP to the comments section :(

    nobody's going to bother with it now you have to log in... it just took me 15 minutes just to track down my login details because i'm at work. For christ's sake you can't even choose your own password to make things easier to remember!

    I thought the odd stupid FP post was well worth putting up with for the benefits of a diverse group of users/posters =((

    sorry for off-post topic

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