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Some choices please
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:31 am
by Directive
My
AOpen DUW1616L-13 combo drive craped out a while ago. I know the URL is Netherlands but it seems the
www.aopen.com site wont open. That Netherlands site had the same drive. At first I figured I would save the money and use my wifes laptop. Well, she now has it so full of "stuff" that I can only copy one DVD at a time. So, if I could get some suggestions on another drive, at least 2 choices per person or your best manufacturer. Looking forward to what you have to look at.
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:53 pm
by palmboy5
By 'combo drive' I was thinking you wanted a CD Burner with DVD-ROM reading capabilities, because they call those
combo drives.. But ok
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827129007
This one looks like your best bet. But if you can, try and find this one somewhere:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827152058
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:04 pm
by Directive
OK, out of the 2 you posted or one of these...
http://www.buy.com/prod/12x-super-allwr ... 15374.html
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 2bdvd1040i
which one do you think is best for the buck?
I am also interested in this light scribe thing, is it any good?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:28 pm
by palmboy5
Well I won't even consider w/e that "Allwrite" is, makes me think of the Optorite brand. Sure it was founded by some guys that used to work in one of the bigger brands, but I bet they didn't leave. No, they were fired. For good reason. That drive died years ago. The HP costs more than my two options while adding the Lightscribe feature (and a little up in the burn speeds).
The last I heard of Lightscribe was that it took FOREVER to print a disk. And for color disks, the colors aren't vivid, like from what I saw it resembled something more like the old Technicolor except washed out.
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:24 pm
by Directive
OK so I am torn between the NEC and HP drives. I know it takes a while to scribe. I also know It take a whole lot shorter time to scribe a simple black and white song list on a disk then a photo whether it be color or B&W. I like the faster speeds. How does NEC rate compared to HP? HP makes some decent peripherals but I don't think I ever owned anything NEC. Does anyone else have any input or do all bow to the hardware wizard palmboy.
I just searched for the NEC drive and the cheapest I found is...
http://computers.pricegrabber.com/dvd-r ... h=ND-3550A
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:14 pm
by 2005
I would go with the Pioneer drive, simply because they are the best.
If you want a second choice, I'd get the NEC.
I have and still use to this day the NEC ND 2510A which was NEC's first DL writer and its going strong after 500+ DVD-R writes. I got my moneys worth out of it for sure.
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:00 pm
by Directive
OK, with Pioneer in mind, how much better is the SATA drives then EIDE?
I found this for a few dollars more...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827129009
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:27 pm
by 2005
SATA is acutally better with some forms of game protection, starforce if I remember correctly.
Otherwise its only nice to have SATA optical drives when you only have a single IDE channel.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:42 pm
by Directive
My HDD is SATA so right now the only things hooked to IDE are my 2 CD drives. The dead DVD writer and my, still working, CD writer (52x24x52). I just figured I would get better data transfer using SATA. I know I have a BIG difference when I got this Seagate SATA HDD. I'm thinking for about $5 more I can get the SATA. Wouldn't you?
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:19 am
by 2005
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think IDE can support anything a dvd writer can put out. So jumping to SATA should have no difference in a DVD writer.
It might in a hard drive though.
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:33 am
by Directive
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:56 pm
by palmboy5
But but... The Pioneer has more 1 eggs than 5 eggs!