I need a CD-R to create music singles for distribution.
The offers that I can afford myself are
Mitsumi CD-writer (8/4 external SCSI),
Panasonic (external PP).
Seagate (external PP).

I wish to make a few questions:

1. Some musician told me that I should only use SCSI CD-Rs:
   I know that SCSI is faster than EIDE or PP, esspecially on
   multytasking, but us there any deeper reason besides speed? I don't
   have a SCSI card, and I wish my CD-R to be used with various computers.

2. I heard that there might be stability problems. A friend of mine who
   has an old CD-R and has a multyboot computer (Win95 and WinNT), told me
   that he prefers not to write CD-R on Win95, but rather on WinNT because
   any swaping/other tasking, may corrupt the media. Is this hold also for
   newer CD-Rs ? Is it so sensitive? does it help that the CD-R is SCSI in
   that matter? In relation to this question, any comments about the
   brands mentioned above? Are there software solutions to this problem in
   Win95?

3. General comments about the brands mentioned above? The prices that we
   got for them are much cheaper than the prices of Philips/Sony. Are
   they definitly inferior? How are they from the point of stability, and
   from the point of reliability.

4. What is the fastest writing multiplicity on CD-R that can be normally
   achieved when connecting a CD-R to a parallel port? (directly, without
   compression tricks). Is it a bottle-neck? Is it possible to produce a
   4 times basic speed parallel-port CD-R?

Thanks in advance,
any partial help is appreciated.

- Uzi