The guys from CDR-info were again the first with the review of the new plextor drive: PX-W2410A IDE CDR-W. The drive was announced almost a month ago. This new drive is the first drive which includes a 2 year-warranty. The drive supports up to 24 speed Zone-CLV writing (and support all writing speeds, unlike the Sanyo/TDK and LiteOn!), and has a 4 MB buffer. This is (a part of) their conclusion:
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Plextor's name is connected with quality and maximum performance under all circumstances. The new PX-W2410A model continues this tradition and is a great performer in many writing/reading tests. The drive seems to be the fastest recorder ever produced and burns 650Mb under 4mins. The new "PowerRec II" system ensures maximum writing quality and the 4MB of buffer among with the BURN-Proof will eliminate possible buffer underruns. The addition of 2 years of warranty (only for European users) gives a big motive to possible buyers since no other manufacturer has offered it, so far. Finally, the capability of doing perfect SD2 backup CDs will make many users happy. So is this the drive that we have all been dreaming off?
We could say yes if the following problems weren't present: a) the recognition problems of various written AudioCDR media, b) the strange results with various CDs at the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE quality test and c) the very bad CloneCD reading performance. In our opinion the drive needs more fine tuning in order to correct the above problems. On the other hand, Plextor has proved that cares about its customers and most possible sooner than we think, the mentioned problems will be corrected with a newer firmware update. After all, none was perfect 🙂
The drive is packed with Nero 5.5.3.5 and InCD v2.26.1, and is about $30 higher then competitive drives. Read the full review here.
Also thanks to Patrik and timberwolf for giving us the link!
Source: CDR-Info
