Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: jcoffey@crl.com (James L. Coffey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom Subject: Re: Mitsumi vs. Plextor? Date: 1 Aug 1994 12:48:15 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest] Lines: 47 Message-ID: <31jjhv$k47@crl.crl.com> References: <319im6$336@search01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Herb Oxley (hoxley@max.tiac.net) wrote: : In article <31c1rq$2m0@cronkite.cisco.com>, : pbjohnso@cisco.com (Paul Johnson) wrote [in part] : : > [Mitsumi's more) 300Kb/s (or over 2Kb/s per dollar) gives you more data : > transfer : > per dollar than the Plextor (600Kb/s / $400= 1.5 kb/s per dollar). : What is the OS support of the Mitsumi vs. a Plextor CDROM? : Are there drivers available for OS/2, WinNT, Linux etc? Linux, OS2 arer supported (last I checked) I don't know if WinNT is supported since I don't use it. : Will Mitsumi update their drivers and make the updates freely : available or at nominal cost should a future OS release break the : existing ones? So far they've made them available for free on their BBS and the net : What if a user's present or future applications (such as digital : video) require greater than 300k /sec transfer rate? The key question -> how much are you willing to pay to stay on th e(b)leading edge? What if a new standard comes out that the early 4x'x don't support (mucha as multi-session CD did to early single speed drives? If I had the bucks, I'd get a quad. 108$ for a double was much better for me than 400$ for a quad (plus the cost of a SCSI card) : How about product quality? SO far I'm happy with my mitsumi - and they have a lot of experience making drives. : Availability of tech support, firmware updates and timely warranty service? Tech support has always been helpful and easy to get through to, haven't needed firmware updates or warranty work. : a few things to chew on..... Agreed - everything about PC's involves compromises -- "...the central concern of [the 2cd Amendment's] framers was to prevent such federal interferences with the state militia as would permit the establishment of a standing national army..." L. Tribe, noted constitutional scholar