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| 833869 | 2009-11-26 08:00:00 | Hi, I'm after a SATA DVD burner. Needs to have a black front. Lightscribe as a bonus. www.computerlounge.co.nz How's this one? Or is there something better at a similar price? Thanks. |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 833870 | 2009-11-26 08:07:00 | Been using Asus or Lite-on for a while now in builds, seem to be OK. Only LG's I had were in some workshop PC's - had a few problems with two of them after about 6 months. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 833871 | 2009-11-26 09:56:00 | I have an Asus DVD drive, it's actually a Pioneer. I don't know if all the Asus drives are though. I also like Lite-on too. Wouldn't get a Samsung, I have seen several randomly die No idea about the rest. Sony is probably OK though. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 833872 | 2009-11-26 18:00:00 | I have an Asus DVD drive, it's actually a Pioneer. I don't know if all the Asus drives are though. I also like Lite-on too. Good as that's what newer Asus are based on. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 833873 | 2009-11-26 20:46:00 | Liteon all the way :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 833874 | 2009-11-26 23:43:00 | Asus it seems have never made any optical drives, they just rebrand others. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 833875 | 2009-11-28 02:43:00 | My present PC has a Pioneer DVD ROM and a no-name (unkown) DVD writer. Not had any problem with either. I've bought an HP DVD 1070i writer today. Seems to have everything I was looking for, and the HP I use at work is going strong after several years. In my present/past PCs I've always had two drives, one a reader and the other a writer so I can just copy discs from one to the other without saving to the HD first. Readers are so cheap, and it seems such a waste to have all those empty bays! Is this what others do? I haven't looked at a second drive yet for my new PC. |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 833876 | 2009-11-28 02:46:00 | Nope, I use one dvd burner. I just keep what I need on a spare partition, and burn whatever, if I have / need to | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 833877 | 2009-11-28 03:28:00 | I'd avoid LG as some have 'Bluebird' software hard coded into them. I didn't know about it till too late but I do have a fix for it which I hope doesn't brick the drive! | linw (53) | ||
| 833878 | 2009-11-28 03:34:00 | Yes, I'd heard about the Bluebird issue. I read somewhere there was a fix for it. Did put me off a bit. | Grimy (3041) | ||
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