Which Lite On?
 

Just wondering if there's a change between LTR-32123S and LTR-40125S except the speed difference? I'm not a speed addict, and I'm upgrading from a x6 burner :D so either x32 or x40 won't hurt my eyes. Don't know if there's a difference in the built or functions between the burners.
There's a 90€ gap between the two, money that I can goodly use for other components.

Any reply appreciated

CdSlaper

i would get the slower one because,
the slower the better copy,
your most likely to get errors when you copy it at high speed,
it costs less

faz2002

Which Lite On?
 

Yep slower speed sucessful burning. Plus there aren't much media for x40 burning. Plus doing some "exact copies" ;) someone won't go running and burning at x40.
Just needed to know if the integrated technology is the same in x32 burners as in thier x40 cousins.
Putting it simply I don't like the idea of sparing 80€ and lack some features x40 might have.

Btw anyone got an opinion on the Mitsumi 16Mb buffer burner ( I think it's CR-4809TE ). Is it SD2 compatible?

Just came from Cdrlabs.com and according to their review of LTR-32123S looks like the drive can't writte under x8.
I might be wrong but to what I've heard when doing copies of protected media, one of the precautions is to writte at low speed x1 -> x4. What do you think?

Does the Lite 40X have Mt Rainer support - or is that their next drive...can't remember.

proly the next one, i think cdfreaks said that the very first mt rainier approved cdwriter had just passed through the microsoft testing.

According to CDRInfo one of the Mitsumi drives is the only one who passed the Mt.Rainer test.
As for my questions done so far, consider them a closed case ;) Went out and got the LiteOn 32123S and since 2 days burning the hell out of it . Damn stable! :D

Thx for the opinions . Laters!

What the hell test? what test?

where did you the liteon?

CD Breaks
 

Is there any way of making a CD writer - write slower.

I've got CD Bremse and I use it to slow down my x54 to a x4 Max Forced when I listen to music so it doens't skip (and it works).

It however only changes the CDROM read settings, not the write -
can these be changed? I've got loads of dodgy quality CDR which
has cost loads over the years and it really needs max write of
x4 for a perfect audio bkup.

Yeah man, what is this weird test, mst ppl can understand MOHAA
but Rainer.tst MS LAbs - what is it??

mt rainier tests is microsofts testing suite that makes sure the drive can handle it. its just like their XP compatible patch, a bunch of test to make sure the normal dumbass can make it work.