Plextor Europe officially announces PlexWriter 40/12/40S

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Plextor Europe officially announces PlexWriter 40/12/40S

We already reported about Plextor's latest SCSI drive several times but today we can find an official announcement of the PlexWriter 40/12/40S on the Plextor Europe website:

Leading Edge Performance

Plextor, one of the leading companies for the development and production of CD-ROM drives, CD-Recorders, CD-ReWriters and CD media is expanding its range with the PlexWriter 40/12/40S, which writes CD's at 40-speed, rewrites at 12-speed and reads at 40-speed. The PlexWriter 40/12/40S is the ideal instrument for both professional and private users who want to copy CD's, archive large files, or create multimedia productions.

Designed specifically for the latest black PC cases, Plextor is one of the first companies to offer the choice of both black and white casing using the latest 40-speed writing technology.

The PlexWriter 40/12/40S comes in internal version with a Tray load mechanism.
The Retail package (only available as for the white version) contains: PlexWriter 40/12/40S, 1 blank CD-R disk, 1 blank CD-R/W disk, CD-Recording software Nero + InCD (OEM version), Plextor Utility software (PlexTools), manual in 16 languages, mounting screws, audio cable.
The Bulk package contains: PlexWriter 40/12/40S, manual in 16 languages, Plextor Utility software (PlexTools), audio cable.

You can find a complete list of product specifications on this page. Plextor and their products can of course be discussed in our Plextor Forum.

Source: Plextor Europe

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Posted by GringoTM on Monday 09 December 2002 15:42

Ok is SCSI but Why 40/12/40 !!!

The SCSI interface is Too Slooow for 48/24/40 ??

I don't understand the new Plextor marketing.

People ask SCSI and plextor Re-sell the 40x unit in SCSI version instead of the Last 48x!!

I Hate This!!!

Posted by on Monday 09 December 2002 15:54

40x12x40 is fine! Its a whole lot faster than 12x! 48 speed gives you about 20 seconds off the speed of a 40? Sit back and relax while your CD is being made. I will admit that 24x rewrite would be nice.

Posted by cdrfreak on Monday 09 December 2002 16:37

It uses Z-CLV.
I prefer CAV writing.

Posted by on Monday 09 December 2002 17:26

Plextor won't be going higher than 40x in any sort of official capacity. There is far too much quality loss and risk of disc exploding when you pass the threshold of 10,000 RPM. I'd prefer a company that chooses to be cautious when we're talking about exploding discs, instead of being blind to the dangers. Besides, any personal recording I do for myself is at 12x. I want my discs lasting longer than a year. :8

I find it funny that Plextor Europe would announce the new SCSI drive, considering that section of Plextor announced that Plextor was out of the SCSI CD-R/RW market.

That was sure news for Shinano Kenshi, Plextor Japan, and Plextor USA. :4

Posted by WRFan on Monday 09 December 2002 18:07

who cares whether it's 40 or 48?!! it's just a couple of seconds difference! I think it's fast enough, and apart from that, it's quality what this is all about, not quantity. asus and liteon drives might be faster, but they are just atapi crap, and crap in general, even if they were scsi, because only plextor knows how to make good drives, and I am not just talking about ability to make copies of copy protected discs, may be there are some games where liteon is better, but in general plextor is much better than liteon, asus and philips together. especially the scsi version of plextor

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