How important is buffer size in a DVD/CD writer?

I'm looking at several DVD writers for my 1100 athlon gateway w/768 meg of
ram, including the LG GSA-4040B, LITEON LDW-451S & SONY DRU500A. The 1st 2
are 2meg buffer size, the last is 8 meg. What is the inherent advantage (if
any) of a larger buffer size? The Sony is about $25 more than the others.
Thoughts?

TIA

Dan

Dan wrote:
I'm looking at several DVD writers for my 1100 athlon gateway w/768 meg of
ram, including the LG GSA-4040B, LITEON LDW-451S & SONY DRU500A. The 1st 2
are 2meg buffer size, the last is 8 meg. What is the inherent advantage (if
any) of a larger buffer size? The Sony is about $25 more than the others.
Thoughts?

Buffer size is of little importance now with buffer underrun prevention.

Mike
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http://www.mrichter.com/

Mike Richter wrote:
Dan wrote:

I'm looking at several DVD writers for my 1100 athlon gateway w/768
meg of
ram, including the LG GSA-4040B, LITEON LDW-451S & SONY DRU500A. The
1st 2
are 2meg buffer size, the last is 8 meg. What is the inherent
advantage (if
any) of a larger buffer size? The Sony is about $25 more than the
others.
Thoughts?


Buffer size is of little importance now with buffer underrun prevention.


AKA "BURN-proof" (Buffer UnderRuN proof)- the most unfortunate computer
acronym ever!