Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Tuesday 24.12.2024 / 22:12
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > archived forums > cd-r > help on dvd/cd-rw combo drive
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
Help on DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
TheToad30
Newbie
_ 		13. March 2003 @ 12:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi all. I am curious if the following question I am going to ask makes a big difference or not.

I just purchased a Combo drive from Samsung, the SM-348. I thought that I was getting the retail version of the drive but I misread and ordered the bulk version. There is no difference between the two except that the bulk version has 2 mb of memory, and the retail has 8mb.

Is the memory in a burner and DVD combo that big of a deal? Is this something that I need to return to get the better one, for a more than $20 increase in price?

I was reading online that the memory buffer isn't that big of a deal now that there are countless buffer underrun protections. Is this correct?

Thank you for your help.
[ + quote]
Racemann
Member
_ 		14. March 2003 @ 14:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The extra memory shouldn't really make a big difference b/c of modern buffer underrun technology.

Plus in Nero and CloneCD, you can manually set more system memory for burning.

As long as you don't do too many things at once [burning and doing a video capture], then you're fine.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > archived forums > cd-r > help on dvd/cd-rw combo drive
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork