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Me and my folks are considering investing in a DVD burner. I don’t know much about them (Since I’ve never owned one) and I would like to know what are the best brands. I also would like to know if there are good external DVD recordable drives, or if I should just get an internal one, or whatever’s cheaper. We don’t want to pay a whole lot.
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Liteon is pretty good. One of the best and cheap. Depends on what you gonna do with it. http://club.cdfreaks.com/ is a good site for info.
This is my beauty. Never failed me once, and it acts as my main drive, as well. Fast speeds, 16x on DVD+R and DVD-R, and it even supports DualLayer!
I’d also suggest buying it from NewEgg, they ship everything so fast, this came a day early, believe it or not.
I have one of these, and it’s worked very well for me in these past 7 or 8 months that I’ve had it. I like the way it looks, sort of different from how most drives are.
I also would suggest buying from newegg, since they have pretty competitive prices, and like Spike said, they usually ship things really fast. One time, they didn’t get my order out until two or three days later, and they just changed it to overnight, free of charge.:D
This might be out of your price range, but I plan of grabbing the Plextor internal SATA 8meg cache DVD dual-layer burner. 8meg cache is a GREAT thing, especially for DVD burning since so much data is being moved. The SATA interface is great because there a far fewer errors during transmission that traditional PATA suffers from; this is why SATA drive have a higher throughput than PATA drives of the same model.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131351
Some less-expensive, but slightly slower burn speed SATA Plextors w/ 8meg cache:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131328
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131329
$89 – $20 mail-in rebate = $69.If that’s a no-go for you, I’m a fan of Samsung and Sony burners. I don’t have experience with them, but others sure like their Liteon drives.
The reason we like are liton drives is cuase we can back up almost anything any games any movies etc… Like I said it depends on what you gonna use it for.
I say get an internal one over an external one, they burn faster, have a less error-prone transfer, and don’t get as hot. With DVD burners though, they’re pretty much gonna be obsolete by the time they burn out so don’t worry about quality too much.
I just snagged the 716SA for the build of a new computer, but I’d like to backup everything first. I grabbed that, a Promise controller card and 50 Memorex DVD-R media.
I’ll let you know if I hit any snags along the way. Only the hardcore reviewers have the techniques and knowledge to truly benchmark a burner, so I won’t be able to give you that. I will however, be able to tell you of any hiccups or bumps as I put it to initial use.
I did some heavy-duty research into CD-R/RW media about 3 years ago and found a great site with a lot of technical information; I learned a lot. I have yet to find a site with such in-depth analyses of media in the DVD format, but I found a site with DVD media brand ratings:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdmediaI remember that Memorex was a praised brand for the CD market, and it is here as well. I am skeptical of the ratings for Khypermedia and Verbatim, based on pasts experiences with their CD media.
I will never again buy anything Khypermedia-branded because their CDs were blatant re-stomps of Verbatim CDs, and were obviously a bad batch of media; the CDs would not all burn at consistent speeds, some would max at 24x, some at 32 or 48. The CD-RW drive I got from CompUSA as a spare drive (since it was nearly free after rebates), was 100% incompatible with Windows XP, contrary to claims; even on 98SE, it wouldn’t burn at the advertised speed, just like the CD-R media.
Verbatim, I only dislike because I had a spindle which had a weak stomp layer (or SOMETHING bad on the top), that peeled easily in the heat, but from specs I read online for that specific type of CD (brand is irrelevant), they shouldn’t have been so susceptible to UV rays and heat as they actually were.
I have a spindle of Imation CD-R media, and it isn’t anything great or bad, but more of a mainstream spindle and it does its job well for its price.
Anyways, I will probably be sticking with Memorex for DVD media because I’m going to be backing up a lot more data, more frequently, and I want the assurance that the media won’t fail me prematurely.
Anybody else have input on media, since we’re on the topic of a DVD burner? I’d love it if someone shared their secret bookmark to a very tech-y page like my old CD media page that I’ve long since lost…because I didn’t backup like I should have. : /
When it comes to burners and how to use burners and anything about burners that site I gave has it all. Have you looked through that site? They even talk about media
Blank Media
Discuss blank CD media and blank DVD media here. Is cheap DVD media worth the try or should you purchase more expensive blank media?
Sub-Forums: Blank DVD Media Tests, Blank CD-R(W) Media tests, Media Testing/Identifying Software
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33. Anything to do with burners is on that site. Best site ever when it comes to burners imo, I have not seen a site or forum with as much info as them and their links to other sites are good to. Might even ask in that forum, I am sure someone will know. Here is a some more sites to http://www.dvddemystified.com/ http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html http://www.cdrfaq.org.Jon8RFC wrote:This might be out of your price range, but I plan of grabbing the Plextor internal SATA 8meg cache DVD dual-layer burner. 8meg cache is a GREAT thing, especially for DVD burning since so much data is being moved. The SATA interface is great because there a far fewer errors during transmission that traditional PATA suffers from; this is why SATA drive have a higher throughput than PATA drives of the same model.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131351
That is the exact same DVD burner that I have in my computer. I like it a lot, even though a few DVD’s that I have burned have not been able to play. I do not know if that is because of the burner or the software though.
colin wrote:That is the exact same DVD burner that I have in my computer. I like it a lot, even though a few DVD’s that I have burned have not been able to play. I do not know if that is because of the burner or the software though.
If it plays in the Plextor, then that means that the media itself is not compatible with other read-only drives or home DVD players. They can be read on DVD burners as long as it is able to write the same type of media.Personally burned DVDs are INCREDIBLY more sensitive in players than CD media is in players, and it’s pretty annoying. With that site dread posted, I’m going to give it a good look-over (when I’m ready to dedicate a couple of hours) and see if there’s some supreme media that is the king of playability.
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