On 3/6/03 1:54 am, "william.curwen" wrote: > The Mac platform does not support USB v2 all that well,
Doesn't support it at all, does it? Will run the device at 1.1 speeds though. > I have just bought one, it runs at phenomenal speed and has a generous > under-run buffer of 2meg, so it can burn CD's from your PC/Mac network. It's > a Lacie 52x24x52 I've never quite got this speed burning issue. Surely its a fairly well known fact, that the faster you burn a CD, the more chances of it failing (reliability wise). Secondly, the faster the speed, the less difference in actual burning time. A 1x drive burns a 750Mb 80minute CD in 80 mins 2x in 40mins 4x in 20 mins 8x in 10 mins 12x in about 8mins 16x in 5 mins 32x in 2.5 mins 52x in under 2 mins Now OK, I rarely burn a full CD, usually my jobs fit on about half the space. But as I want the CD not to fail, I tend to burn it at either 8x or 12x. As my desktop G4 has an 8x burner built in, I use that. The 12x firewire has been in its case for months now. OK I have to wait 5 minutes while it burns, but it does it in the background (on OSX) so who cares, I'm doing other things while its chugging away. Do people really need all that speed? I certainly don't. Perhaps people are busy burning all those archive CD's? But in that case, most definitely one wouldn't be risking burning them at full speed, would they? Oh well. Its probably hard to find a slower drive now anyway. Have you thought about installing one internally? I just installed a basic CD/DVD drive on my G4, took about 2 minutes to install, cost �30, works like a dream. Means that Retrospect can now run and I can still use a CD. Retrospect hogs the Superdrive/CD burner while in use. Regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
