Half on, half off -- New CD-R drive and 512-byte blocks

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Apr 11 21:35:33 2002

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:

> For what it's worth, you can get them refurbished from Plextor,
> supposedly, for about US$95 for a SCSI cd-rw of some sort. That's
> probably the best price I've found on them. The only reason I didn't
> get one instead of the Sony drive I finally settled on was that they
> didn't answer my email, and I really didn't feel like playing telephone
> games trying to find the right number ;)

  That's a darn good reason not to buy _anything_, in my world. But I
do like Plextor readers. They're much faster in large reads than
equally-rated other brands, and they seem to get a better sound out of
music CDs. Plus, they'll boot darned near anything.

        Doc
Received on Thu Apr 11 2002 - 21:35:33 BST