the title says all....
What I want to add is that I had some problems with the Yammy 16x, not copping with 16x but rather 10x or 12 max...

If you have a problem with the latest burners please write it...
thanx in advance!

Have you burned with any drive at 16x consistantly? It won't help to buy a newer faster drive oor even another 16x drive if it's your system that can't supply data fast enough for a 16x burn. Can you burn data CDs from the HD at 16x? What are you system specs, CPU, CD reader, Hard drive, etc.? Are you burning on the fly or from HD and what are you burning, MP3s, Audio, data, etc.? Do you have anything else running and is the HD defragmented? Is DMA enabled for the drive. Yamaha 16x burners are certainly cable of burning at 16x (they are P-CAV so they won't start at 16x but should reach 16x)?

Keymaster..

I have an Athlon 1400 on a chaintech mobo with 512 DDR Ram
Both my IDE cables are 66-100s, and the hard disk is the IBM 41.2GB 7200rpm.

I know I should be able to burn at 16x but I've only managed that some times, and then it stopped. Everything is nice and tide in the hard disk, no fragmentation whatsoever..

I have the same problem burning an image (ie 650MB from the hard drive) as a single file, 650 MB in scattered files, Audio, anything.

What I want is a drive that offers burn proof technology (all of them support something similar nowadays), because I mistakenly bought the Yamaha for 190 pounds when it was first out, instead of getting the 12x burnproof plextor for 160... The coasters I've made so far add up to at least 100 discs!!!!

BURN PROOF FOR EVER!!!

I`ve just got a Teac CD W524E & it burns at 24x with no problems. And its got a 2 year warranty in Europe.
I got it yesterday so I`ve not done exhaustive testing but all reports I`ve seen are good, and its cheaper than a Plextor.

Inca

Go with Teac baby, never had a problem with them. I had a 8x8x32 teac and a 24x10x40 teac, both work really well, cheap plus reliable. Stick with TEAC cd-524e

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