Plextor intros 12x SATA DVD writer

[AND1]

Plextor has announced the imminent availability in Europe of the Serial ATA version of its internal 12x DVD writer. The PX-712SA DVD+/-R/RW will be available in June for around £129 plus VAT. An E-IDE version of the drive is scheduled for release in May.

SATA and E-IDE version of the PX-712 write DVDs at 12-speed and rewrite at 4-speed using the DVD plus format. With the DVD minus format, the drives write at 8x and rewrite at 4x. DVD-ROMs are read at 16x.

The main advantage of SATA over Parallel ATA (E-IDE) is greater bandwidth (150MB/sec). SATA interfaces support one device per controller connection, eliminating master/slave configuration jumper issues.

Both version of the PX-712 come with Ahead Nero, Ahead InCD, Pinnacle Studio 9, Cyberlink Power DVD and PlexTools Professional.

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=4008

[gitreel]

this will be obsolete pretty soon because the 16x dvd burners are about to come out.

[AND1]

How fast do you want it? Do you expect to burn a movie or game at 16X or even 12X for that matter? The 12-16 speeds are only for data if they even come out with DVD-Rs at that speed.

Movies or games will still require you to burn slow to avoid any corruption.

By the time they come out with 16X DVD-Rs there will be 32X DVD writer available, so what's your point?

[gitreel]

i mainly use dvd's to back up data, however, i do burn movies from time to time. I personally am okay with it taking an hour to burn, but right now it takes me 15 minutes.

[Vanderlow]

So do you need SATA bandwith to do 16x?

Also 16x is the physical limits of DVdr, there will be no 32x, also DL limit is 4x from what I understand.

[gitreel]

you are preaching to the choir. I already know these things. I don't need that much speed, but i will buy the 16x burners when they come out. Speed is addictive, and I want more.