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fast cdrw media for my 52/32/52 lite on and I've got macs with 10x cdrws
I just put a lite-on LTR-52327S in my new computer
http://www.liteonamericas.com/us/CDRW_ltr52327s.htm A drive I'm sure everybody here is familiar with. My parents also have 2 beautiful Macs in the house" One 15" Flat Panel iMac - http://manuals.info.apple.com/Apple_...L17637C_EN.pdf and one Quicksilver G4 tower - http://manuals.info.apple.com/Apple_...L18299B_EN.pdf Both of those Macs have, not the dvd combo drives, but rather the internal CDR/RW 24/10/32 drives. I'm looking at faster media than the 4x disc I've been using for use with my lite-on drive. I'm pretty sure I read that the 32x Ultra Speed Verbatim media can be read, but not written or erased, by anything but a 32x RW drive. the fast media I've spotted: http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10358027 - the 32x Verbatim Ultra Speed http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10332676 - 16x - 24x Verbatim Ultra Speed http://www.thenerds.net/productpage.asp?pn=848559 - larger spool of 16x - 24x Verbatim Ultra Speed I'd like a couple fast CDRWs to use with my Lite-On, but my dad would also like some fast media that works with the Mac cdrw drives. Is the 16x-24x media flexible such that it would work with the 10x CDRW drives in our Macs or do I really need to limit the media I write with the Macs to something like this 10x Memorex stuff? http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10311324 I also see an attractive 4x-12x option sold under the HP brand name - http://tinyurl.com/2qp5f and 4x-12x media carrying the same Verbatim Ultra Speed branding as the higher speed stuff - http://tinyurl.com/2udhb PS: before I get a lecture on this.... I know that CDRWs are for short term data storage. If I ever do any archival stuff I'd use CDRs of course... but when I'm running off to a friend's house with some downloaded video clips of the Chappelle Show, I want to burn them onto a CDRW quickly, not have a CDR permanently burned with the episode that I want to watch once. I also find myself helping out a lot of folk with computer problems, and it's nice to be able to quickly burn a CDRW with some of the latest software that I'd be setting them up with after I format their messed up machine. So I have legit uses for fast CDRW media, now I just need some help figuring out what media to get. I'm perfectly happy getting two types of discs, some 4x-12x for the Macs and some 32x for my lite-on drive. Or I'd be happy to get some 16x-24x for my lite-on drive if the 32x isn't reliable. With the price being identical, I've got to assume the 32x would work just as reliably as the 16x-24x in my lite-on and I should grab the 32x.. Am I making a good assumption? is 32x media for my lite on and 4x -12x for the Macs the right way to go? -- To e-mail me, replace "_nospamtoday_" with the "@" symbol when replying to my address. |
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