| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 5 Aug 2001 at 17:33:39 |
| Subject: | Re: AA22 review of the PlexWriter |
Jonathan Day said,
>> CD writing generally requires plenty of RAM, and more helps offset the
>> disadvantages of the slow interface.
> Fair enough, I can understand that, but RAM's not mentioned in the review.
The need for buffers has been mentioned in previous CD writing articles.
Itr's a trade off between making each piece self-contained and repeating
information over and over.
>> > SYSTEM: Any Amiga with an IDE interface and at least x Mb RAM, but the
> more
>> > the better.
>>
>> It's hard to put a figure on X though, which is why I didn't.
> So perhaps some mention in body of the review to this effect ? Is 32Mb
> enough...?
I'd say it's a decent minimum, more would help.
>> The drive was reviewed in the context of using it with an Amiga. In this
>> context, it's not a particularly good buy. A PC magazine would give it a
>> better rating, because it works better with a PC.
> In cases such as this, I would personally prefer reviews to be based on
> upgraded hardware, detailing the performance on lower spec machines as a
> side issue rather than as the primary review. Why should you treat the IDE
> interface any different to, say, an accelerator? If someone is considering
> this drive, it's likely they'll have an upgraded IDE interface anyway,
> otherwise they'd buy a slower drive at almost half the price.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to test on all hardware configurations,
because they aren't all available. There wasn't a Power Flyer to test
on. If Power want to let me have a Power Flyer on permanent loan, it
would get good publicity in situation like this.
>> You can't do everything with IDE that you can do with SCSI. Those
>> application usually have USB alternatives, but USB requires drivers,
>> which isn't always true with SCSI. Provided drivers are available, IDE +
>> USB should be sufficient for most needs.
>>
>> OTOH a PCI SCSI controller for the AmigaONE will only cost around £25.
> Yeah, but you still have to pay the substantial (to me on my income anyway)
> difference between a SCSI and the IDE version...
With CD writers, the price is often quite similar. IDE and SCSI writers
use the same command set, so only the actual interface is different. The
rest of the controller gubbins is the same.
Cheers
Neil
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