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Plexwriter W124Tsi

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Plexwriter W124Tsi
Internal SCSI drive. Rs

24,950



Speeds:
12x/4x/32x



Software for CD-R:
B’s Recorder (in Japanese), EasyCD Creator

3.5 with updates



Software for CD-RW:
B’s Clip (in Japanese), DirectCD with

updates



Cache:
4 MB



Vendor:
Zeta Technologies, A/2 Shriji Niketan, 541/D, Dr Ambedkar

Road, Matunga (C.Rly) Mumbai 400019.



Tel : 22-4102288


Fax : 4102277


E-mail: tejas@zetaindia.com

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This drive has the highest

rated write speed of the lot. This sort of speed is suitable for multimedia

designers or big offices with large data backup requirements. The rewrite

and read speeds are 4x and 32x respectively.

The

software we received with the drive–B’s Clip and B’s Recorder–were

in Japanese. As our linguistic capabilities are not up to the mark, we used

Nero 5.0 Demo for our tests initially. With this, it wrote 648 MB of data

directly to CD in seven minutes flat. So, as a data backup device, this is a

great choice. Unfortunately, Nero 5.0 didn’t work too well in the audio CD

tests. Our existing Easy CD Creator didn’t have the drive signature, and

so was unable to recognize the drive. We asked the vendor for another

software, and got EasyCD Creator with proper updates for this drive. This

software took around 17 minutes for the 648 MB direct data write. It again

cached the data on the hard drive before doing the actual writing.

The drive took only about 11

minutes for creating an image and writing it to a CD. This was the best

performance of the lot. In packet writing tests, it took 36 minutes to

format a CD-RW disk and gave a 532 MB usable capacity. The data transfer

rates were, however, a bit low at 0.453 MB/sec compared to the others in

this category.

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As for copying audio CD tracks, the time

taken was about 18 minutes for 15 tracks. Being a high-end drive, it’s

priced at Rs 24, 950, which is a bit high, even though its performance as a

data storage device is excellent.

Like the HP 9310i, it also

comes with Neato and Acid Music. It also has Broderbund’s PrintShop

Multimedia Organizer to manage your photographs and photo albums in style.

At a price of Rs 20,052, this is a bit costly

as far as performance is concerned. However, its portability and ease of

install make it an attractive buy.

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