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once again i ask for your advice on external cd writers.
this time i am looking for something with decent speeds and a few more things. i am sure somewhere i have seen an external CDRW with fire wire. that is what i am looking for. preferably for a cd burner to have both fire wire and usb 2, parallel and pcmcia on top of those would be great.
i have looked at all i could find and so far found nothing that satisfied those demends.
for people who are goin to sudgest to go with internal one, for me that's not an option. can't fit one into a laptop.
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USB 1.0/1.1 burners are pretty reliable, but because they don't have much bandwidth (11mbit/s shared by multiple devices), they can only burn at 4x max.

IEEE1394/FireWire/iLink burners AFAIK go up to 24x because they have up to 400mbit/s of bandwith.

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I have a Teac 8X SCSI external CD-writer, which I must say is very reliable; I've had minimal amounts of coasters burned with this drive. If you can pick it up (its probably pretty cheap now), I'd say go for it.

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I was bored and actually apparently TEAC manufactures a cd-rw that connects via PCMCIA.
http://www.shopteac.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ST2&Product_Code=PCDCW&Category_Code=P

ain't cheap tho.

I *think* the only major manufacturer that makes externals that support more than one connection type out of the box is acer. And does make external scsi cd-rw's, besides yamaha and plextor?

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a bit expensive.. but no parallel or pcmcia. fast, unfortunatley not usb 2, but has usb and firewire. its not often you come across a computer without usb these days, at least one you'd want to attempt to burn a cd on.
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You really don't want to burn CDs over your parallel port. All the models I've seen slow your system substantially because they're emulating an IDE or SCSI device over the parallel port, and unless you burn at 2X and don't touch the system while it's doing so, you'll probably find that it's unreliable too.

I wouldn't even use a USB burner. . .FireWire or SCSI (which, incidentally, is what you probably mean by PCMCIA, since I don't know of any common proprietary interfaces for external drives let alone ones that use PCMCIA cards) is about all I'd recommend. I haven't seen USB 2 in action, so I can't really say anything about it.

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