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| 742963 | 2009-01-29 08:22:00 | Am looking at getting another DVD burner, this time SATA. Currently using a Liteon, have had no complaints. This burner is needed elsewhere, hence the upgrade sarel mentioned to me about Light scribe and how good it is (when I went round to fix his comp last time). I note Liteon do not seem to have Lightscribe capabilities. Asus burners however do. Is Lightscribe really worth it? How reliable are Asus burners in comparison to Liteon? SWMBO uses an Asus CD Burner and says it still does the job (I bought it second hand from a forum user whose name escapes me sorry). Did this reliability carry over to their SATA DVD burners? Not looking for BluRay, just DVD +R read/write capabilities. Lightscribe does sound like it could be very useful.. but is not an essential |
Myth (110) | ||
| 742964 | 2009-01-29 08:28:00 | Why do you want SATA? LiteOn is great :) Lightscribe is crap :( Why do you want DVD +R RW?? Have a look at CDFreaks.com |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 742965 | 2009-01-29 08:51:00 | I have an Asus DRW-2014L1T SATA DVD burner. Have probibly burnt about 20 DVDs/CDs with since I have had. The only thing I notice with it over an IDE one is it is slow to detect a disk. Have not used the Lightscribe capabilities of it yet. You can also get this model in IDE format. Can't really see much difference between this one and my previous Asus IDE burner, model number escapes me at the moment. Can burn a dual layer DVD in about 20mins. Other than that no problems. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 742966 | 2009-01-29 17:10:00 | Why do you want SATA? LiteOn is great :) Lightscribe is crap :( Why do you want DVD +R RW?? Have a look at CDFreaks.comWhy SATA? Thats what my motherboard supports. It does have one IDE connection, but it mainly uses SATA +R is my format of choice... why not? |
Myth (110) | ||
| 742967 | 2009-01-29 17:41:00 | I use an LG in one machine and a Sony in another both Sata and both work well the LG is lightscribe but since I have a Pixma printer I don't use the lightscribe. Both drives perform well so far | gary67 (56) | ||
| 742968 | 2009-01-29 17:48:00 | Ok, hadn't really considered other brands, but do let me know what you think of yours :) So far I have only used a Liteon, so if theres others that are better and compare price wise, fire away |
Myth (110) | ||
| 742969 | 2009-01-29 18:36:00 | I replaced my DVDROM with a Pioneer DVR215 to go with the Sony which is slowing down. Am very happy with it.Never thought it necessary to get a lightscribe one as the printer does all I want. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 742970 | 2009-01-29 18:47:00 | Pioneer DVR-212 DVD Writer, DVD 12R/18W/8RW, CD 40R/40W/32RW, Internal, SATA, Black, OEM I got that about a year ago - happy with it. :) |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 742971 | 2009-01-29 18:55:00 | If you still want Lightscribe there are Liteon models with it but not many dealers list them. If considering Asus, the chipset changed from NEC as used by Pioneer to MediaTek as used by Liteon. At least 1 Asus drive now is the same internally as a Liteon drive. You can't treat a brand's history as a linear progression. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 742972 | 2009-01-29 19:43:00 | Have been checking the web and there is no performance difference between a SATA and IDE. The only difference is you get rid of that wide IDE cable for a tiny thin SATA one. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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