Which burner is the best

[Bimmer]

I am looking for a burner. Speed is not extremely important, but most cdrw's under 300 bucks are at least 8x4x24. I was leaning toward an HP, but I was wondering about Plextor. Any Suggestions?

[Battleship]

HP is good, that is what I use and I have no probs at all. Plextor is good as well. Some not so good burners are Ricoh and Acer.
Have a gander at this cool site to find user reviews of every burner available. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/userreviews/products/cdrecord.html

Happy reading!

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Trade Yash already!!!

[Game0rz]

you might hear plextor, but i think HP is better, it can use CloneCD and can use CDtext all features which from what i know most plexor's dont have, some might though

cnet has a thing on the top 5 burners now check out there site

[LikeAGlove]

here's the scoop... it depends on how much tweaking you do with your system.

you can take any burner and screw it up (configuration-wise) by fiddling around with this and that.

the brand that is most resilient seems to be Yamaha (scsi models). there are some HP's that are good too (8x4x24, or similar). but i haven't heard one complaint about the Yamaha's i've recommended to friends.

plextor can arguably be the most rock-solid brand out there, but if you screw with a vital configuration setting, you'll get nothing but headaches and reinstalls (you know... the ones that start at 1am... )

the verdict: (in order) Yamaha, HP, Plextor, Sony (only the top brands).

if IDE is your choice, then PLextor and HP are the way to go. yamaha owns the scsi burning market (for me)

only my humble opinion. hope that helps.

cheers,
glove

[Jagators]

I have a UltraPlex Wide and a 12x4x32 Plextor burner, and am able to burn a CD on the fly in six minutes. Zero coasters in over 30 burns.

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Jagators

[Game0rz]

well, any 12x burner that actually burns at 12x will do it in around 6 min
but on the coasters thing that's normally the software thing. so thats why i reccemend CDclone too