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Review: OWC Mercury Pro Dual Layer DVD-/+RW Samsung Super Writemaster 20X
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Posted 02 September 2008 - 08:27 AM
One point of clarification regarding the LaCie comparison: The included DiscLabel software is also fully functional for creating and burning LightScribe designs. It does not stamp "demo" on LightScribe designs.
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Posted 04 September 2008 - 09:35 AM
1) the review does not specifically state whether the drive can be bus-powered by FireWire (2A @ 12V should be sufficient!?)
2) missing from this - and every other - review is any clarification about support for DVD-RAM!
DVD-ram is the most convenient & useful format because it allows a dvd to be used a giant (4gb) floppy drive!
* it allows the drive to be presented via the Finder as any other ordinary volume (is no preparation of burn lists; direct dragndrop support of live copying of files)
* it performs verification of the burning in hardware real-time (obviously necessary for live volume support) - which saves a huge amount of time compared to the crippled software verification for the other burning formats.
* it has a much longer duty cycle than the more common eraseable formats (which were created after DVD-ram was invented!)
DVD-ram is this faster & more cobvenient.
Moreover, apple's very first "SuperDrive" (running under classic macOS) was in fact a DVD-ram ... But for done strange (and, typically for apple, unexplained) reason, os/x dropped support for burning DVD-ram!!!
As a result, DVD-ram functionality on the mac has been consigned to certain oem's who seem to license their custom -RAM driver for a third-party (which makes their solution very expensive).
Vista has added native support for DVD-ram (as they obviously understand how the pro content market can find this format a huge time saver in theirvworkflow).
It is the responsibility of a mac publication to have a more thorough format checklist than this kind of cursory review does!
It is especially incumbent upon a mac publication to alert it's readers to a subtle but significant example of how they ate disadvantaged by apple's frequent & unfair practice of orphaning key technologies that they have previously asked their customers to invest in!!
Please amend this article (and all future ones) with a sidebar on the DVD-ram situation.
2) missing from this - and every other - review is any clarification about support for DVD-RAM!
DVD-ram is the most convenient & useful format because it allows a dvd to be used a giant (4gb) floppy drive!
* it allows the drive to be presented via the Finder as any other ordinary volume (is no preparation of burn lists; direct dragndrop support of live copying of files)
* it performs verification of the burning in hardware real-time (obviously necessary for live volume support) - which saves a huge amount of time compared to the crippled software verification for the other burning formats.
* it has a much longer duty cycle than the more common eraseable formats (which were created after DVD-ram was invented!)
DVD-ram is this faster & more cobvenient.
Moreover, apple's very first "SuperDrive" (running under classic macOS) was in fact a DVD-ram ... But for done strange (and, typically for apple, unexplained) reason, os/x dropped support for burning DVD-ram!!!
As a result, DVD-ram functionality on the mac has been consigned to certain oem's who seem to license their custom -RAM driver for a third-party (which makes their solution very expensive).
Vista has added native support for DVD-ram (as they obviously understand how the pro content market can find this format a huge time saver in theirvworkflow).
It is the responsibility of a mac publication to have a more thorough format checklist than this kind of cursory review does!
It is especially incumbent upon a mac publication to alert it's readers to a subtle but significant example of how they ate disadvantaged by apple's frequent & unfair practice of orphaning key technologies that they have previously asked their customers to invest in!!
Please amend this article (and all future ones) with a sidebar on the DVD-ram situation.
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