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PlexWriter 12X SCSI vs ATAPI Shootout (Page 5/7)


Posted: November 17, 2000
Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen

Drive Properties and Controls

Both drives have the ability to detect disc manufacturer and you can adjust spindown time, read speed, and other features via the drive properties page in My Computer.



Using the properties panel, you can tell firmware revision and other useful information about your drive.



With the Settings panel, you can adjust audio output levels, drive speed, and AudioFS which let’s you rip audio tracks straight into you computer by simply dragging and dropping files from you writer to your hard drive.

Benchmark System

AMD “Thunderbird” Athlon 1GHz

Asus A7V rev. 1.01, BIOS 1002
256MB Infineon PC133 SDRAM Cas2
Elsa GLADIAC Ultra
IBM GXP75 Ultra100 HD
Windows 98 SE
Adaptec EasyCD Creator 4.0

Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32S Internal UltraSCSI with firmware 1.00
Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A Internal ATAPI-4 with firmware 1.04

Let's get on with some numbers.

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