Breedo

Hello,

Have someone already test the new plextor dvd-rom px-130 ? If yes, what are the caracteristic (accurate, caching,...) ? I own a px-716 and a old ultraplex40 scsi and the ultraplex work better with eac due, i think, to disk caching. The day my ultaplex going die, is the plex 130 a good idea ? If not, which drive is the best ?

Thank you very much

Plexmann Pro

Hi,

I own the drive in question, in addition to my 716A and 4012U. The old 4012U is the best one for ripping CD-A, at least when it comes to copy protected ones. It manages to interpolate the errors like a normal player would. For this the 130A is useless (produces lots of errors in the file), and the 716A manages to correct most of them. So, no, I would recommend another drive if you are hoping for good DAE capabilities. Also, read speed for written DVDs is quite low with the 130A (I've got 3-8X CAV), which is quite annoying when making copies as you have to depend on BurnProof even if burning at 4x.

I would go ahead and find an old Plextor CD-RW for ripping music, or another brand of DVD ROM drive that's quicker. The 130A isn't even a genuine Plex.

jhartmann

Although http://www.daefeatures.co.uk/faq.php#test claims that "EAC can test for Accurate Stream, caching, C2 error info, overreading & read offsets", its test for caching is highly unreliable, which is known for long but still not mentioned at http://www.daefeatures.co.uk/faq.php#test — in fact, all test results for HL-DT-ST (LG) drives are incorrect in that they claim those drives would not cache audio data while in reality they do indeed cache 37kB of audio data.

To reliably test a drive's caching functionality one should use a Demo of Feurio! which one is also able to test how much audio data the drive caches.

Martin

Source : http://www.digital-inn.de/106824-post3.html

There have also been cases where feurio has failed to propperly detect audio caching, so for reliable and also very fast audio cache testing + supported read commands and Plextor FUA command support, then i would recommend Spath's CacheExplorer : http://download.cdfreaks.com/download/155

yoo

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C0der

1. What happened with forum www.forum.eac-audio.de? (I understand only English and Russian ).
2. Does anybody knows read/write features for TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1312 (such as overreading into lead-in/lead-out; overwriting into lead-in/lead-out and so on) ?

tarzanoj

There are no actual drives on this site - seams to be no maintanance anymore.
It's a pity - I'm looking for a new drive for DAE with no adio buffering - can anybody help? What about e.g. Lite-on DH-20A3H ?

RamonSalazar

The site no needs for maintanance. Everybody could report drives after registering. To bad that people doesnt take the time to report.