[Cube] Re: External DVD/CD burner options

[Donald Schwab]

The best advantage of an external CD/DVD burner is that you can make  
direct copies of CDs and DVDs.

I find Toast Titanium 6 is a fine Cube CD/DVD burning software  
application, simpler to use than Ahead Nero 6, which I use in my  
Windows PCs.     I use Toast with an external FW Lacie CD-RW (NEC  
within) burner plugged into my Cube, and with an external FW Lacie  
DVD-RW (Lite-On within) burner plugged into my PowerMac G5--the Lacie  
DVD-RW worked as well with Toast with my Cube with its DVD-ROM drive.

I suspect assembling a home CD/DVD external, with a Pioneer DVR-110  
and whichever FireWire external box you find most aesthetically  
appealing, would be fine with Toast.  (I was able to get great deals  
on my external Lacie units, making the "Porsche Design" cases more  
affordable than a 911).

And many other external burners might prove workable with a Cube or  
other Mac, if you install Patch Burn -- I found it made using some  
Creative branded Plextor CD-RWs feasible:
	
Patch Burn 4.0.0a5 	Popular 	Homepage :: File Mirrors
Description: Patch Burn is a CD/DVD burner software. It allows many,  
otherwise unsupported burners to be used directly with Mac-OS X,  
iTunes and DiscBurner.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Version: 4.0.0a5   Filesize: 1.09 MB   License: Freeware
Added on: 2005-12-01  Downloads (all versions): 1670