The very first burner I had was the HP 9100 Series CD Writer. LOL It didn't even burn DVDs and only burned up to 8x on a CD-R. It's so prehistoric. Now I have a Plextor PX-740A DVD±R/RW drive, which can burn CDs and DVDs, with speeds up to 16x for a DVD-R or DVD+R, up to 8x for a DVD+RW, up to 4x for a DVD-RW, up to 16x for a DVD-ROM, up to 48x for a CD-R and up to 32x for a CD-RW. It's also capable of booktyping DVD+R to DVD-ROM, which is really nice. I never burn DVDs faster than 4x and I usually burn CDs at half of what their speed is, so if I have a 48x CD-R, I burn at 24x.
wow, dakota, that picture just brought me back to like 1999. i actually have that exact same cd burner. i remember buying it a circuit city and thinking i was so state of the art. if i remember correctly, i think it stopped burning cds a couple months after i got it, but its still being used as a cd-rom drive in one of my computers today. i remember it being very expensive also.
You're close about the year, it actually came out in February of 2000. It was very expensive, but I bought one anyway because I wanted a CD burner really bad at the time. It was $249.99. It used to take about 15-20 minutes just to burn a CD. lol
That was my very first burner too. I got it when it first came out for like $300.As a matter of fact I think I still have it in storage somewhere. Ive used it probably over 1000 times making all sorts of cds. data,music, vcd you name it. It is a really good burner. I also have a Plextor 740 now that thing is great kind of expensive though but worth it. I just got a Lite-On 16935 too its OK.
Ah, sweet memories, although mostly off-topic... Here's my little story: My first experience with a cd-writer was more than 10 years ago in our university, where they had bought a brand-new Yamaha SCSI-burner, the first burner I ever saw. It could read CD's at 4x and write at outrageous speed of 4x, too, and here comes the best part, the price: It cost 30000 FIM (Finnish Mark's, now we are using euros), which was about 6000USD!. You have to remember, IDE-burner's didn't even exist back then. My first ever CD-R was burnt with that Yamaha @ 2x, because burning at whopping 4x was way too risky, no BURN-proof's or similar technology didn't exist then, neither. Buying that first CD-R is another funny story. It was more than 10 years ago, so empty cd's were bloody difficult to find, and when I finally found a place, the price tag was a 'nominal' 104FIM (~20USD) per CD-R (and no, 700MB CD-R's didn't exist back then, so 650MB was the only choice...), so obviously I planned VERY carefully, what to burn. I just found my first ever CD-R, brand is 3M and the manufacturing year is 1993. Still working flawlessly. My first cd-writer was HP 7100, which was 2x/2x write/read, pricetag was 2400FIM (~480USD). Out of the box, the firmware didn't even support DAO, and with 2x, a normal amount of time it took to finish a full disc, was ~43 mins. After a firmware update, reading speed was upgraded to a mindblowing 6x. I had that burner for many, many years, until grabbed a HP 9100 (8x writer, if I'm correct?). When it broke down, I got myself a spanking new technology, a DVD-writer! Which was a Sony DRU500-AX (4x), around 400 euros. That was a terrible piece of hardware, I had nothing but problems with it, out of 10 burns I had at least 3 coasters. Finally I got frustrated enough and bought a NEC 3520, which has been a real good value for money, comparing to my previous burners. Not a single coaster yet. Amazing... edit, a few things added.
i had a scsi 2x cd-r woot, cost me $300 when it was new - - - Now i bought a DVDrw for less than $200 oh how times change
