NEC 3540A vs. Pioneer DVR 109
I'm planning to replace my combo drive with a dual layer superdrive on my Power Mac G5 (runs Tiger, 10.4.1). Although both NEC 3540A and Pioneer DVR 109 are available for around the same price, the NEC 3540A seems to be a little faster for certain write and read tasks compared to the Pioneer DVR 109.
Would anyone have specific recommendations for and against these? This would be from the perspective of getting it working (with firmware updates, if required) as well as speed and reliability. I'm not sure which one I should get.
I do understand that a firmware update may be required to get the drive working as expected. I also checked xlr8yourmac and it looks like people have had success with both these models (although there are more records for the Pioneer DVR 109 than for the NEC 3540A).
The differing specs are listed here.
NEC 3540A
WRITE speeds
CD-R 48X
CD-RW 32X
DVD+R DL 8X
DVD-R DL 4X
READ Speeds
CD-ROM 48X
Pioneer DVR 109
WRITE speeds
CD-R 40X
CD-RW 24X
DVD+R DL 6X
DVD-R DL 6X
READ Speeds
CD-ROM 40X
Thanks! 🙂
Would anyone have specific recommendations for and against these? This would be from the perspective of getting it working (with firmware updates, if required) as well as speed and reliability. I'm not sure which one I should get.
I do understand that a firmware update may be required to get the drive working as expected. I also checked xlr8yourmac and it looks like people have had success with both these models (although there are more records for the Pioneer DVR 109 than for the NEC 3540A).
The differing specs are listed here.
NEC 3540A
WRITE speeds
CD-R 48X
CD-RW 32X
DVD+R DL 8X
DVD-R DL 4X
READ Speeds
CD-ROM 48X
Pioneer DVR 109
WRITE speeds
CD-R 40X
CD-RW 24X
DVD+R DL 6X
DVD-R DL 6X
READ Speeds
CD-ROM 40X
Thanks! 🙂
