Online vs. Retail

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#1 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:39 pm

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 236&depa=0
$88.50

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4162163 (Fry's)
$129.99 ($99.99 w/ rebate)

2005 · #2 Post by **2005** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:01 pm

thats a bad drive, we have a few of them in our high school and their shit... go with the NEC ND 3500... its only 60 something dollars and its just as fast.

#3 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:03 pm

no no, the NEC is faster. lol and yes after i found it i changed my choice XD (its only cheaper cuz its OEM btw, sony OEM is like 2 bucks more.)

i cant find the 3500, only 3520? im assuming its a version locking out the 3500's modability?

2005 · #4 Post by **2005** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:50 pm

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getp ... id=3648375

Shipping may be more or less depending upon where you live but tigerdirect is just as good as newegg

and that sony drive is shit, i know first hand.

#5 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:04 pm

but what exactly is the difference?

2005 · #6 Post by **2005** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:54 pm

Well 2 out of the 4 of those sony drives they had didnt even work, and the 2 that did didnt do what they were supposed to do

One would only burn to -r/-rw disks and one would only burn to +r/+rw disks and not as fast as rated

This nec i have is wonderful, burns any disk i throw at it and today i just reflahsed hte firmware on it to version 2.17, which was hacked to make it RPC1 (which means it was region free and had an unlimited number of region changes) and removed the rip lock (which increased my dvd movie rip rates from 40 min to 10 min)

It is solid and i can burn 4x disks at 8x without fail, the nec dvd drives are great. That particular sony is SHIT.

#7 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:08 pm

XD i meant between 3500 and 3520 but doesnt matter anymore, its been answered.

can 3520 bitset?

2005 · #8 Post by **2005** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:52 pm

Seeing as how mine can I think that one could too....

2005 · #9 Post by **2005** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:52 pm

Make sure you reflash with an RPC1, and rip lock removed firmware (which will require a real dos environment) Ill post a link if you give up on how to do that.

#10 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:43 pm

lol already ordered the 3520

2005 · #11 Post by **2005** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:32 pm

WE Dog, i thought we were like that

#12 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:43 pm

WE? Dog?

the drive came.

#13 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:49 pm

whats with every drive defaulting with the jumper(s) on Master?!?! those fucking self priding retards.

Guest · #14 Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:25 pm

CHECK UR PMS 2005, JEEZ

#15 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:41 pm

YEAH MAN... GOTTA GET THAT TAMPON IN IN TIME!