| From: | Jonathan Day |
| Date: | 7 Aug 2001 at 01:02:05 |
| Subject: | Re: AA22 review of the PlexWriter |
Hi Neil
> >> 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.
Which you were very right in pointing out as I mentioned in that first mail,
I just thought the review was a bit more geared towards the lowest spec
possible rather than possible potential given a better than standard
A1200/A4000/near future AONE IDE solution. Although I do appreciate you can
only test on available equipment.
But you've already replied to that.
> > 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.
Yeah, how many Amiga users actually even bother to check the rpm... ;-(
> > 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.
Agreed, just like hard drive capacity.
> 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.
To bring up a point you make further down, this is where the test on the PC
helps. It shows the drive is very capable and indeed is a "good" piece of
equipment - just unfortunately the standard IDE interface cannot handle the
speed available. Everything you wrote in the review seemed (to me the
novice) as true and accurate, but the "tone" just sounded very anti
A1200/A4000 IDE, rather than pro/ anti PlexWriter.
> 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.
I did a search on a couple of PC retailer websites and could find any
reference to Plextor, is this why?
> > 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.
Forgive me, but that was the impression I got from my interpretation of the
"tone" too. I certainly dont think it would encourage Plextor to place an
advert in AA for example, not necessarily for this unit but Plextor products
as a whole, even though it is a good piece of kit, which was part of the
angle of my original post, linking to David's column.
Right that's it, no more from me :-)
Jon
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