Plextor PlexWriter 121032A 12x10x32 Internal EIDE CDRW Drive

by Plextor

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004Z92Q
• Item model number: PX-W1210TA/SW
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Customer Reviews

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137 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate CD-burner, November 3, 2000

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"maxrebos" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plextor PlexWriter 121032A 12x10x32 Internal EIDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

The Ultimate CD-burner on the market. Plextor makes flawless burners! this is one of the fastest available so far. I have burned over 50 cd's and not one ruined! Burnproof technology does work and this drive has it. Burn an 80 min 12x CDR in just under 6 1/2 minutes! Easy to install, less than 5 minutes. All major cd software packages out there support it. There is nothing bad about this drive!

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast and Wonderful !, November 30, 2000

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J. Robinson (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plextor PlexWriter 121032A 12x10x32 Internal EIDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

Outstanding performance from this cd-burner. A great new feature is "Burn-Proof" -- which virtually eliminates ruining CD's because of buffer underruns when writing at high speeds. This means you can continue using your PC for other tasks while the writer is creating your CD. It also takes the risk out of copying from a slow CD-reader that ordinarily couldn't keep up with this speedy new drive. This is especially great for novices who tend to waste lots of blank CD's while trying to find the best combination of settings for burning new CD's.

I now use my drive mostly for creating data cd's - - storing my digital camera photos that take up so much room on my hard drive. And for peace of mind, I make a duplicate copy just in case one of the CD's gets damaged somehow. And with blank cd's costing around 35 cents (and getting cheaper), this is a cheap reliable backup... especially when you consider the alternatives.

This drive plays music cd's well, and can extract songs from them easily. I have a 6-disk cd-changer in my car. Now I don't have to carry around so many cd's or switch them so often because I can create my own custom CD's that contain only the tracks I want to hear. This Plextor makes it so QUICK AND EASY to do. And I hear no quality difference whatsoever between the custom-created CD's and the original. I safely store my originals at home and don't risk driving them around the country anymore.

The speed for writing to re-writable disks is 10x. That is the fastest I have seen. I use re-writables to backup frequently-used files that change (microsoft money data files, address book, software projects, email, etc.).

I use my drive with Adaptec EZCD 4, and my operating system is Windows 2000. I certainly get lots of use from this reliable top-performing drive. And packet-writing is supported.

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST EIDE CD-RW on the market today. PERIOD., December 8, 2000

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aaron wittenberg - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plextor PlexWriter 121032A 12x10x32 Internal EIDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

I received my Plextor Plexwriter in early December 2000. To be honest, I hate EIDE burners. I have used SCSI before and the performance was better. So why would I buy an EIDE CD-RW drive? One person that I have spoken with and is extremely knowledgeable about burners has a Plextor (not this model though). He didn't have one bad thing to say about it. I heard of Plextor about 6 years ago, and decided to look into this. I read about 5 reviews of the Plexwriter, and all were good.

The single detail that sold me was BURN-Proof. What this does is when the 2 MB buffer runs out during the burn cycle, the drive stops burning, and remembers where it left off. Once the host drive picks up again, the drive starts where it left off, and continues burning. I only know of 2 drives that include BURN-Proof. The high end ZipCD, and the Plexwriter, although this drive has better reviews.

The last CD I burned had over 500 MB of movies on it. While I was burning at 4X (though I could have done 8X just as well), I was downloading full board on my cable modem, I was copying about 2 GB of movies across drives, looking over web sites, and had ICQ going.

Let me repeat that: burning a CD at 4X (a generic CD at that), downloading at over 100K/sec, copying 2 GB of files across drives, using the web, and talking in ICQ. So how did the CD come out? Flawless. I wasn't even trying to go easy on it.

My system is a Pentium II 450 with 256 MB of RAM. Nothing spectacular. So how slow was it during the burning? I didn't even notice the burn going on.

The downside? The drive is expensive..... BUT I have peace of mind knowing that I can go hardcore on burning and do whatever I want with my system and burn flawless CDs. So far I have only burned a few, but they were all perfect. And these aren't expensive CDs either.

A friend of mine bought a cheap... burner and won't use anything but ICQ while burning. I FULLY use my machine while burning CDs. The Plexwriter doesn't even care.

Simply put, THE BEST drive I have ever used, and the drive is very quiet too. Much quieter than my old Memorex 40X CD-ROM.

You decide. I'm sold on Plexwriter 12/10/32A. Keep in mind that the 8/4/32A does NOT have BURN-Proof.