**Read First** Dvd Burners.. What to look for?! **

What do people think of the new Plextor 800a? Or should I try to find a 716a on ebay.. My BenQ Dw1655 wants to retire. It's starting to make this really nasty grinding noise.. oddly when i push on it from the top through my casing this stops.. sometimes.. in kind of an unpredictable varying kind of way. Maybe something got loose inside the drive?

 

i found a fast and reliable dl dvd burner the pioneer dvr 112d its the fastest of its class and i couldnt find any problems on the net that hav occured with this 1

 

For the most part Pioneer's are great drives - you got a good one there.

 

even some pioneers are crapy not a lot of them i guess and the dvr 112d is $38 at centrecom sunshine, VIC,Australia and its black/beige

 

That's why I put "For the most part". Learn to read and punctuate, please.

 

How cheap can you get a CD drive for? 50 bucks? 100?

 

May I ask why you want merely a CD writer?

Hi binkie

How are you?

 

what country r u from binki7 and ripper

 

I'm in the United States. I think I could possibly end up going to best buy today.

 

I just want to be able to play cd games and such.

 

I recommend u get the pioneer 112d black dl dvd burner 18x i know here in Australia u can get it 4 $38 100% brand new not sure about America and if u want the sata version of it its the pioneer 212d sata dvd re-writer, Plus i looked on the net and haven't found any problems with these 2 drives example burning and reading prob's as i mentioned b4 unlike lite-on wich my bro got with his p4 and it stoped reading and writing all together and he got it 2 now read and write dvd but not cd so he has 2 switch drives when using cd

i know im not good with punctuation and that stuff

good price
good quality
good brand
good speeds
all good

 

Oh right K, hope it all goes ok! Get in touch over at BB or something maybe?

And I'm with them, a dvd burner is a better option as it's will still let you play/burn cds anyway. the price difference is minimal for the advantages gained.

 

I don't know much about computer drives. My PC came with a drive, as all should. How do I tell if mine can burn DVDs or not? I am guessing it has something to do with the logos on the front of the drive. Mine just says Compact Disk ReWritable High Speed, and nothing else.

 

I've been getting the cycle redundancy check error too much now on my home pc which has a SONY DVD RW DRU-500A burner in it. I've switched media and same thing. At first I was using dvd xcopy and never had an problem unitl recently. I then moved to dvd shrink and now I'm still getting the error. I than tried AnyDVD and Clone DVD. Same results.

So I'm looking into buying a new burner. I want to be able to use it with my IBM T40 notebook and my home pc in my office. So I've narrowed my choices down to the Pioneer 18X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model DVR-212DBK - OEM based on the reviews I've read about hear.

I want to place it in this External Drive Enclosure.

My question I have is about the SATA connection. Will this matter since I'm using a External Drive Enclosure? If yes is there a way around it or should I just buy the ATA version?

Another issue I have is I like the Lighscribe feature since i don't burn a lot of dvds the train on the laser shouldn't be affected too much. so which burner would be my next choice that has this feature?

 

Thanks guys! The info help me out alot. I brought my Lite-On DVD Burner at Wal-mart for $44.00 dollars in the United States. I purchase a HP computer from the same place and it came a Samsung DVD Burner which I tried to add DVD-ROM with no avail.

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Wise men don't need advice; fools won't take it. -Ben Franklin

 

Glad you found the info useful

 

Wise men don't need advice; fools won't take it. -Ben Franklin[/quote]

actually a true wise man knows.......... ....wen to run like a little bitch *runs away* (got it from an anime called desert punk lol)