Thank you for your response.. just a few extra questions....
Basically the cache in a burner has data in it that allows the burner
to continue to write to the media when there is a pause in the data
flow from the system. Without that, the current write has to be
completed and restarted when new data is available.
Hard drives work very differently at that level with writes happening
at the sector level with nothing like the same downside when write
data isnt available. The cache in a hard drive is more useful for
reads with normal desktop systems, not with writes.
or point me in the right direction for reasearch..
I keep coming up w/ usless search results in google and alltheweb
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Keywords include 8mb cache + Sony. or 2mb cache + A06
Yeah, google doesnt work very well when you dont have something
relatively unique, you end up with far too many hits to be very useful
and few can be bothered combing thru the massive number of hits.
A friend of mine bought the Sony drive about 3 weeks ago... he quickly
opted to buy "cheap" DVD-R media, he's tried the memorex DVD's and
some generic CompUSA 4x and 1x media including some DVD+RW...
none have resulted in coasters, nor buggy response time.. it seems
as if it burns fast, I'm just wondering how a pioneer will do,
Its significantly less fussy about the media.
and for the $$ it seems neat... plus just read today on iomega's site about
their newest Super DVD writer that does "all" formats including DVD-RAM.
Yeah, thats the bleeding edge currently, that format stuff.
The last one.
thanks again for your quick response.
No problem.