Which one is the best CD/CD-RW burner out there?

[loonytoon]

I'm looking to purchase a new CD-R or CD-RW. Does anyone has any suggestions to which is the best burner on the market right now. I'm using P3 - 500 Mhz - Win98 and Nero 5.5. Thank you in advance

[thxkid]

depends on what you wnat to do, if overburning is a must and using the 99min. CD-R's also. The best CD burner for that is the HP9150 at walmart for $99, I have 2 and would not trade them for one of the faster 16x or 24x with the chance of loosing the overburning. I have burned a 99min. CD all the way to 98min. and 48 seconds and it plays the movie back perfect in any DVD player.
If this is not a concern then go with a 16x or 24x burner by Yamaha, Sony, Plextor, Teac, Creative Labs and make sure they have Burn proof on it.

[DiViNeLeFT]

i have the creative 121032 drive... i have to say even though every other piece of creative hardware i have im not happy with... this i am.. definitly get a burner with burn proof... most drives with burn proof are a plextor OEM, so you know your gettin a good drive... ive also heard good things about the yamaha drives... they dont have any buffer underun prevention... but they do have an 8 mb buffer!! so who needs burn proof when you have that size buffer.

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[loonytoon]

Thank you for your input. I like the Plextor myself also, but will research some more before I'll buy it. Do you all know if these CR-R/RW can write to a mini CD disk (3" wide)?

Thank You for all your help

[Vejita-sama]

I am really thinking about geting the Plextor 24x as I've never had any problems with them. But I don't know if you ca read/write 90min or 99min CDRs. The VCDhelp.com CD comparison list does have any info, but when I read on other sites most Plextor drives overburn to 89:30.

But it also appears the Compusa is the only place to buy 90min CDRs, and I hate them Where else can you find 90/99min media? Also the limit on the upper burning limit is firmware right? So there's got to be a work around for it.