I've read the posts on 8mb vs 2mb cache on HDD, now does the same
apply to DVD burners? as of late I see the Sony 510a and the new
Pioneer A06, the Sony has 8mb cache and thus perks my intrest...

does it matter that it has 8mb of cache or is that $100 bucks thrown
down the bucket for nothing?!?!?

MeMyselfandI <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've read the posts on 8mb vs 2mb cache on HDD,
> now does the same apply to DVD burners?

Nope, the detail is quite different.

> as of late I see the Sony 510a and the new Pioneer A06,
> the Sony has 8mb cache and thus perks my intrest...

Quite a few are very ****ed off about the Sony
and you hardly see any ****ed off about the A06.

Mainly the Sony is much more fussy about the media.

> does it matter that it has 8mb of cache or is that
> $100 bucks thrown down the bucket for nothing?!?!?

Yes, and its much more fussy about the media too.

Thank you for your response.. just a few extra questions....

"Rod Speed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > I've read the posts on 8mb vs 2mb cache on HDD,
> > now does the same apply to DVD burners?
>
> Nope, the detail is quite different.

Could you elaborate, or point me in the right direction for
reasearch.. I keep coming up w/ usless search results in google and
alltheweb , Keywords include 8mb cache + Sony. or 2mb cache + A06

> > as of late I see the Sony 510a and the new Pioneer A06,
> > the Sony has 8mb cache and thus perks my intrest...
>
> Quite a few are very ****ed off about the Sony
> and you hardly see any ****ed off about the A06.
>
> Mainly the Sony is much more fussy about the media.

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, 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.


> > does it matter that it has 8mb of cache or is that
> > $100 bucks thrown down the bucket for nothing?!?!?
>
> Yes, and its much more fussy about the media too.

Yes to which question?

thanks again for your quick response.

MeMyselfandI <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your response.. just a few extra questions....

> Rod Speed <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote

>>> I've read the posts on 8mb vs 2mb cache on HDD,
>>> now does the same apply to DVD burners?

>> Nope, the detail is quite different.

> Could you elaborate,

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 ,
> 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.

>>> as of late I see the Sony 510a and the new Pioneer A06,
>>> the Sony has 8mb cache and thus perks my intrest...

>> Quite a few are very ****ed off about the Sony
>> and you hardly see any ****ed off about the A06.

>> Mainly the Sony is much more fussy about the media.

> 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.

>>> does it matter that it has 8mb of cache or is that
>>> $100 bucks thrown down the bucket for nothing?!?!?

>> Yes, and its much more fussy about the media too.

> Yes to which question?

The last one.

> thanks again for your quick response.

No problem.