Back to the old 12/10/32s drives is seems
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:43 pm
Are you getting more CD-Rs with recorded flaws lately? I am.
I think it is the burners of today, especially the DVD-R/CD-R combo recorders that do not handle CD-R as well as the old CD only recorders. I have been doing some trades with a friend, the usual stuff, old out of print MFSL, DCC, plus some Japanese original issues, and the odd needle drops. And when I started using my Pioneer DVD/CD combo recorder I noticed more small flaws in the recorded discs. I took it that the quality of the CD-Rs were getting worse, so I switched brands again, and tried more TY Japanese made media, and still go the same average number of flaws. Just small hiccups here and there, not entire disc failure.
Then I went back and started using my old Plextors, the 12/10/32s, and the 12/4/32s, as well as a 10/12/32a. I saved these first two drives on my computer junk drawers, and picked up that last one, the 12/10/32a from an old near dead computer I found at a thrift store for $10.
It seems my flawed discs % went way down when I went back to these old Plextor war horses. I was always burning at 16X tops anyway, and so going back to 12x is fine with me. I have three computers in a row with three screens so I can do needle drops on one, internet on another, while burning on the third is I am busy. Or have copies going on three machines at once for those extra large trades. It's nice to be able to knock out a 30 disc trade quickly with three machines going as I'm still much more of a disc trader rather than a downloader. But I am beginning to do a bit of FLAC downloading. And I am setting one of these machines up to be a music server with a 2trb internal, and a similar external drive.
Anyway, it is just so odd to me that I would be back with my 1998 and 1999 Plextors this late in the game. And I wondered is others are also using these time tested awesome Plexys?
I think it is the burners of today, especially the DVD-R/CD-R combo recorders that do not handle CD-R as well as the old CD only recorders. I have been doing some trades with a friend, the usual stuff, old out of print MFSL, DCC, plus some Japanese original issues, and the odd needle drops. And when I started using my Pioneer DVD/CD combo recorder I noticed more small flaws in the recorded discs. I took it that the quality of the CD-Rs were getting worse, so I switched brands again, and tried more TY Japanese made media, and still go the same average number of flaws. Just small hiccups here and there, not entire disc failure.
Then I went back and started using my old Plextors, the 12/10/32s, and the 12/4/32s, as well as a 10/12/32a. I saved these first two drives on my computer junk drawers, and picked up that last one, the 12/10/32a from an old near dead computer I found at a thrift store for $10.
It seems my flawed discs % went way down when I went back to these old Plextor war horses. I was always burning at 16X tops anyway, and so going back to 12x is fine with me. I have three computers in a row with three screens so I can do needle drops on one, internet on another, while burning on the third is I am busy. Or have copies going on three machines at once for those extra large trades. It's nice to be able to knock out a 30 disc trade quickly with three machines going as I'm still much more of a disc trader rather than a downloader. But I am beginning to do a bit of FLAC downloading. And I am setting one of these machines up to be a music server with a 2trb internal, and a similar external drive.
Anyway, it is just so odd to me that I would be back with my 1998 and 1999 Plextors this late in the game. And I wondered is others are also using these time tested awesome Plexys?