supported drives

[ddouglass]

As Sam said, the fix upgrade for Hoster should be out by the end of the month, 10 days from now. Why go out and buy another drive when the one she has will work as soon as you upgrade her Hoster after the release?
As far as Microstudio goes I believe the 760 uses the same driver settings as the 716 and should work with version 2.613 until MTU releases the version 3.000 which will support the same drives as listed for Hoster.

[admin]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

As Sam said, the fix upgrade for Hoster should be out by the end of the month, 10 days from now. Why go out and buy another drive when the one she has will work as soon as you upgrade her Hoster after the release?

I absolutely agree.

If you must have a USB external drive, buy one from the MTU on-line store. Frankly, I'd wait for Hoster 3.312. We WILL release before or on October 30... We commit to that.

[WDEWDAD7]

Hey Sam, would you suggest staying with the Plextor Premium? Or moving to the Plextor 760? I never really quite got my drive problem fixed. I am assuming that my Plextor Premium is...tired. I have had it for 1 1/2 years, and downloaded a lot of discs. Thanks, Daryl.

[Garry A. Leslie]

Hey All,
I bought the Plextor 760A.
Had to upgrade Microstudio, because it wouldn't work with the previous version, and had problems with the latest version of Hoster, not recognizing it at first.
Miraculously it all sorted itself out, without any help, don't know how or why but it has worked great ever since.
Plenty of older drives are aways available cheaply on Ebay.
Only trouble with DVD drives is their speeds are nowhere near as fast as the fastest CD drives, and when using other programmes which actually show you the processing speed, they are shown to work at about half or less of their advertised speed.
I have only ever had one Plextor drive that wouldn't work with MTU products, for some reason MTU never supported that particular drive.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

[gpayne]

I have bought 3 Plextor drives from MTU. I have not had problems with the drives until MTU changed the code and made Hoster check to see if the drive had hardware decoding. In previous versions you had the option to use hardware decoding or software decoding. The reason was that some disks would import and be snowy or have flakes etc. in the displayed lyrics. With my Plextor premium and my Plextor 716A there were times when I needed to select one or the other modes to get perfect imports. I wish they had never changed that but I believe a lot of people might have been getting confused on which mode to use or even how to select it. It is easier to let their sotware dectect hardware decoding if it is available on your particular drive. However, I am not sure that you would want to use hardware or software decoding under every circumstance. I would rather have the option to choose depending upon if I have a disk that imports with snow etc. Currently all of the drives that I bought from MTU are working. The Plextor 760A is the slowest of the bunch, but still does the import. It will not do great imports unless the import speed is set to 6x. While you can help make the import go well by selecting a slower speed, I would still like the option to hardware or software decode during import.

See ya

gpayne

[WDEWDAD7]

So, what is the best Plextor drive?? The previous post stated that the 760A imports slow. Is the 716A the best? The Premium? I am kind of relying on the forum to give me some insight, before I buy another drive. So far, each Plextor drive has lasted about a year or so. Is this normal? Some more feed back would be appreciated, if no one minds. I thank everyone in advance for this.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by WDEWDAD7

So, what is the best Plextor drive?? The previous post stated that the 760A imports slow. Is the 716A the best? The Premium? I am kind of relying on the forum to give me some insight, before I buy another drive. So far, each Plextor drive has lasted about a year or so. Is this normal? Some more feed back would be appreciated, if no one minds. I thank everyone in advance for this.

my opinion plextor is still the best drive, i have a 716 ext. and i havent had any problems with it..i've been using it isince i started using hoster

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by WDEWDAD7

So, what is the best Plextor drive?? The previous post stated that the 760A imports slow. Is the 716A the best? The Premium? I am kind of relying on the forum to give me some insight, before I buy another drive. So far, each Plextor drive has lasted about a year or so. Is this normal? Some more feed back would be appreciated, if no one minds. I thank everyone in advance for this.

Sorry I don't have a lot of insight into this. The only plextors I have are the ones noted in my signature. After 3 years they still work like champs but of course being that they are becoming technologicly old they'll start getting less and less support from the software industry.
At some point here I'm sure Ill have to start searching for replacements just to keep up.

Sam

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by WDEWDAD7

So, what is the best Plextor drive?? The previous post stated that the 760A imports slow. Is the 716A the best? The Premium? I am kind of relying on the forum to give me some insight, before I buy another drive. So far, each Plextor drive has lasted about a year or so. Is this normal? Some more feed back would be appreciated, if no one minds. I thank everyone in advance for this.

Daryl, the slowness is a software problem not the drives themselves. the 760 is the fastest drive they have made yet. I have both a 716 and a 760 and they are both good. The next version of Hoster, as Admin said will be out by the end of the month and you should see a remarkable improvement. Wait and see. If you still have problems after that then buy a 760.