Re: [Thinkpad] DVD burner for T41?

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:14:15 -0500, Bruce Markowitz wrote:

>Just buy a DVD burner of your choice (I highly recommend
>the Pioneer A05-A06-A07, although I had good success
>with the Lite-On after upgrading the firmware) and a
>cheap USB 2.0 box, around $50.00
>
>Not too portable, but very good and fast.
>
>There are some firewire small portable drives, they are not
>cheap, look on www.esbuy.com

Thanks Bruce, that's very helpful.

I decided to look in one place and found some interesting externals
at www.tigerdirect.ca (same as .com except the prices, I think).

There's a Digistor skinny one, U$190 for 2x -R, 1x -RW, 2x -RAM

Fantom Premier, U$180 for 8x ±R, 4x ±RW, but no -RAM

Most don't seem to do -RAM at all; the cheapest is an Iomega at
U$220 which is 8x +R, 4x -R, and 3x -RAM

Or I could put one together with a Speeze USB enclosure (U$50) and
a Toshiba 4x -R/-RW drive (U$70) or LG 5-format (U$150) for U$120
or U$200 total.

I understand DVD-RAM is supposed to make the DVD disk act like a
HD, is it worth it? Does it work well? Sometimes drives with -RAM
show up on sale at BestBuy or FutureShop, for less than the Iomega
from Tiger.

And is there any performance benefit to a designed-to-be-external
drive (e.g. Fantom Direct) vs. an IDE in a USB enclosure?

Thanks!

andrew [awebber@wwwebbers.com]
ph 613-797-8123
fx 831-300-4097
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