Buffalo Technology MediaStation 8X External Blu-ray Writer

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 02:00 AM

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#2 newuser1980

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 04:41 AM

13:55 to burn a bluray, I rather use CD-R which is just 2 minutes

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 05:02 AM

newuser1980, on 25 September 2009 - 04:41 AM, said:

13:55 to burn a bluray, I rather use CD-R which is just 2 minutes

Hmm... can you burn 25 to 50GB of data to that CD-R? Apples and oranges here...

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 05:11 AM

newuser1980, on 25 September 2009 - 04:41 AM, said:

13:55 to burn a bluray, I rather use CD-R which is just 2 minutes

Huh? You do realize that the Blu-ray disc holds 50GB of data while the CD-R maxes out at 700MB, right??? 2 min x 71 CD's is 142 minutes.

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 05:20 AM

What happened to comparing against the internal Apple Superdrive or "five Blu-ray burners we tested" ?

He did mention 4.7GB finder burn times "Mediastation 11 min./ Superdrive 22:43".

The chart (table) shows the marginal speed difference between the 2 interfaces, but how about compared to other brands?

It's hard to make a buying decision when you only compare what you get in the box against itself.

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 05:30 AM

No tests of the SATA to IDE converter-equipped internal drives? Most Mac Pros still have IDE connections for their internal drives. That would be a useful test for many of us.

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 06:29 AM

2 min per 700MB on CD-R = 71+ minutes for 25GB + the time it takes you to change those 35 discs...have fun :-)

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 07:17 AM

leicaman, on 25 September 2009 - 05:30 AM, said:

No tests of the SATA to IDE converter-equipped internal drives? Most Mac Pros still have IDE connections for their internal drives. That would be a useful test for many of us.

Unless you used a SATA to IDE converter yourself on your mac pro, your internal drives are all SATA. All MacPros are all SATA, all the time, 24/7. Apple switched over to SATA from PATA in the first generation PowerMac G5 Towers over five years ago.

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Posted 25 September 2009 - 11:01 PM

leicaman:
All Mac Pros have SATA ports available for optical drives, Apple just didn't use them.

mcgordon:
Hate to break this to you, but we're talking about optical drives here, not hard drives.

Only the newest model Mac Pros with the Nehalem architecture use a SATA optical drive. Previous Mac Pros had unused SATA ports available for optical drives, but shipped with ATAPI (IDE) optical drives.

PowerMac G5s all had ATAPI optical drives and no SATA ports except for the hard drives.

Just clarifying for everyone.

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#10 rbouch8828

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Posted 15 November 2009 - 09:32 AM

I can't seem to find this drive anymore. Some sites say it has been discontinued. Has it been replaced?

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Posted 19 January 2011 - 07:09 PM

I just bought this unit from Amazon - so yes it is still available. I can't write to it using OS X software though. I took it to the Apple store today, and the Genius told me that he couldn't use it on my machine or one in the back. It kept saying that the size of what I wanted to write was too large - and we brought the size down to less than 1 Mb. Any thoughts? The reviews that I have read for Roxio Toast make it sound like it sucks...

Thanks,