New to DVD Burners - Little Help

[mix123]

I want to buy a DVD burner for my laptop. I know it will have to be external and I will probably go the firewire route. I'm just wondering if there's anything I should know before I buy one. There are a bunch on ebay that look pretty good to me and I will give you guys a link to a NEC that looks alright to me:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44955&item=5158009851&rd=1

Let me know if you guys think this is worth buying.


Thanks Alot,

Marc

[GoChris]

ya that would probably work good. if you can get it for a good price I say go for it. If it were me I wouldn't pay more than about $90-100 USD to get it, since with $15 more shipping you are looking at $120 canadian, assuming you are even in Canada.

[mix123]

thanks, i will probably order one of those with a firewire card

[Khyron]

USB 2.0 and firewire are about the same speed - save the cost of a firewire card if your laptop already has USB 2. If it's old USB 1.1 you need the firewire. :D

Khyron

[Charon]

Firewire has a higher sustained throughput where as usb 2.0 has a higher burst rate. Over time firewire will yield better transfer rates on large files where USB 2.0 is faster to burst small amounts of data.

[Khyron]

Yes but both are sufficient for a DVD burner. Unless you can get a firewire card for dirt cheap, or are planning on having an external harddrive.

Khyron