Re: Sony Multi DVD Re-Writer

Maverick wrote on 5/22/2003, 10:43 AM

Hi

I am considering purchasing the above 510 DVD re-Writer but am unsure about something which is not coveredd by Sony's website.

The website states that the internnal IDE transfer rate is 33MB/s (so that would be around 270Mb/s)+?) and the external is 400Mb/s for Firewire and 480Mb/s for USB2 (which I do not have).

Due to the write speed of the physical drive would I actually be gaining anything by buy the faster external drive or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Cheers & thanks

Comments

mikkie wrote on 5/22/2003, 11:43 AM

Far as I know the drive mechanism is pretty much set, whatever casing it's put in -> a better measure is the write speed per type of disc, which should be the same for all 3 incarnations. The measurements given I think reflect the max thruput of the firewire and usb2 ports on the external cases.

Paul_Holmes wrote on 5/22/2003, 12:06 PM

The only thing you should care about is the write-speeds, not the throughput. If it's an external drive it will attach either through a firewire port or a USB 2.0 port and those are designed to get the data in and out fast enough to write the DVD.

The Sony you're referring to probably has a write speed of 4X DVD-R and +R. That's the fastest available now and twice the last generation. That's the speed it'll write at, no slower and no faster. (A 4.7 gig DVD in about 15 minutes).