| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 7 Aug 2001 at 00:01:31 |
| Subject: | RE: AA22 review of the PlexWriter |
Sigurbj�rn Birkir L�russon said,
> Neil said,
>> You need to read the review and decide how suitable the product is for
>> *your* needs and *your* situation. The review pointed out
>> that for the majority of Amiga owners, this drive wold be
>> something of a waste of money as you wouldn't be able to use
>> it to its full potential.
> Sure, but I don't see how that is a factor? There is nothing wrong with
> buying hardware that you can't get everything from at the moment, when you
> do decide to upgrade to something faster, it will just be all the more
> usefull. Aren't most amiga users at the moment using IDE drives that they
> aren't even getting 33% of the performance out of, especially with the a1.2k
> and a4k IDE bus?
Yes, but that's not relevant. You don't get a wide choice of speeds with hard
drives, even a 5400rpm drive is far faster than an Amiga can handle. how
many people would buy a 10000rpm IDE drive for Amiga use.
> As far as buying a cd-writer, I'd say you should always
> buy the fastest you can get, somehow doesn't seem smart to buy a 4x writer,
> just because your current machine can't handle more speed atm, you can
> always just use it as a 4x writer.
CD writers are getting faster and cheaper. This may be false economy. By
the time you have a system able to handle a 16X drive, 24X drives may be
available for less.
It's not the job of a review to tell you whether something is worth
buying, it's to give you sufficient information to make that decision
yourself. The review stated how the drive performed under the test
conditions, and what the test conditions were. I said that it would be
better with a Power Flyer, but was unable to quantify this.
> As for the comment in the review about a
> SCSI equipped version of the writer, I can see Plextors point, the current
> ATA-100 specification is fast enough and cheap enough to bury SCSI die in
> the home and workstation pc, except for the die-hard power user, which is
> probably not enough market share for them to bother with.
That's true, and I'd expect it from other manufacturers. But Plextor
have traditionally aimed at the power user market. Their SCSI CDROM is
excellent and costs more than the cheaper CDRW drives. All their other
CD writers have SCSI options, so this could be seen as the start of a
trend, which would be worrying. It's not that the IDE drive was simply
released first. I wrote that review four months ago, and they still
haven't announced a SCSI drive this fast. Their latest IDE drive is 24X
(and it's a real 24X using CLV) but their fastest SCSI drive is still
last year's 12X model. What are Mac users supposed to do?
> The review wasn't bad at all, I just thinks it's wrong to put a device down
> because it's too fast :)
I didn't, nor did I say it was bad.
Cheers
Neil
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