We tested the drive over a FireWire connection on a Power Mac G4. The indiDVD works on most home computers, Mac and Windows. 603 KB/s), this did not translate into real-world performance numbers, as indicated by the more meaningful Average Transfer rate figures. IDE) Pioneer DVR-106 drive (reviewed elsewhere) had a significantly higher measured Burst Transfer rate (16,976 vs. Furthermore, although the internal ATAPI (i.e. In our tests, there was no measurable difference in disc reading or writing performance between USB 2.0 and FireWire. If you peek ahead at our tested performance numbers (see sidebar), you can see that the USB 1.1 standard is not fast enough for this drive, but both USB 2.0 and FireWire connections surpass the requirement.

We are glad this drive offers both USB and FireWire options. You will need to install drivers from a CD the old fashioned way on Windows 98 machines, but on anything else the process is automatic and effortless. Subsequent swapping of the connections revealed that the drive was ready faster with the USB connection, but the delay with FireWire was only a few seconds. This required the installation of a small driver file and a reboot of the computer, but it was all completely automatic. Windows popped up a notification and within a second, we were ready to go.Īfter running some tests, we disconnected and tried out the FireWire connection.

We took the drive out of the box, plugged in the power supply and connected the USB cable to a Windows XP PC. The indiDVD external multi-format DVD burner is a fantastically flexible burner at a very competitive price.īesides burning just about any sort of blank media that you can fit into the tray, the indiDVD connects to your computer via either USB or FireWire. And although TDK is not primarily a hardware manufacturer, it offers a number of attractive branded bundles, with good documentation, support and a name you can trust.

TDK is a very big name in the blank media business, manufacturing both tapes and discs.

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