Jason Jorgensen <jasonj at talkware.net> writes: > I want to get one of the new plextor 16x's. And I was trying to decide > between the IDE and the SCSI version. > > Why do you not like IDE burners? > > I have all IDE drives in my system so I would have to get a SCSI controller > as well. Well, I'm *really* happy I got the Plextor 121032S (SCSI) version rather than IDE. But I already had SCSI in the system, so that wasn't a consideration. It's much less cpu-intensive, and therefore more independent of other things. I can burn a CD at 12x while playing mp3s and running seti at home in the background without a problem (so far). It also fixed a problem some Windows software upgrade caused where I can't RIP from my IDE CD drive; the scsi drive rips fine. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/