What CD Burner should I buy?

ECUPirate · 04-10-2002, 02:20 PM

umm.. what CD Burner should I buy? I'm probably going to give my Dad my pLextor 12/10/32A drive....

Joe · 04-10-2002, 02:42 PM

Get a Pioneer DVR-A03 DVDR it burns CDR and CDRW at 8X speeds also

and 2X dvdR

WebMasta33 · 04-10-2002, 02:46 PM

www.newegg.com has

a 12x10x32 for 92 bucks OEM

and a

40x12x40 OEM for 140 bucks

And it has some external 40x12x40 USB 2.0 for 190...

Depending on the money you have, I'd just go for the 40x. It's a damn good price considering most places I looked had the 24x plextor for the same price.

ECUPirate · 04-10-2002, 04:03 PM

I have the A03 drive. It's slow at reading... sucks if that's the only drive in that system.

Joe · 04-10-2002, 04:24 PM

seems to do ok for me. but then again you can get a 50$ dvd-rom that will read nice and just use the ao3 for writing like I do.

burned over 360 DVD sides on my A03 already

Adam · 04-10-2002, 06:03 PM

go with joe on this one.....the a03 works sweet....
get a pioneer slot load dvd drive and your set. Ive never had a problem with mine, it works great

Brad · 04-11-2002, 01:48 AM

I like the asus 40x myself, but anything from a well known company will be fine.

Haddy · 04-11-2002, 01:51 AM

get a nice 24x the 32and40x are just like 30sec faster no big deal

EMC2 · 04-12-2002, 07:31 PM

* Prefers Plextor's *

jaani · 04-13-2002, 01:27 AM

Check out http://www.cdr-info.com/ for some of the best CD-R/RW (and DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, hehe so many standards) reviews around.

Personally my feeling is Plextor (for quality, however ripping copyrighted CD's is an issue with their drives), Ricoh or Teac (good value, fast), or LiteOn (bloody fast). Ultimately, however, the differences in speed will only equate to a couple of seconds of extra waiting, though it may make a considerable difference cost wise. And also, as I think someone else mentioned, there's really not much point in buying a 40x CD-Writer and expecting to be able to write at 40x; the write media is simply not keeping up with the drives, and the best you can hope for (realistically) is 16x-24x. In Melbourne (Australia), finding CD-R's rated for 40x is a major problem. Good ol' Emtec 16x for me, however.

Well...hehe...I have a 2x burner....HP 8100i (actually it began as a 4x burner, but since it only has a 512k buffer and no burn-proof or similar, I have to step down to 2x or it'll burn coasters). This is getting a tad annoying, *cough* 40 minutes per cd!

Haddy · 04-13-2002, 01:49 AM

hehe yamaha (aka delta cdrw, loud as crap) 16x will do a full 700mb cd in like 5min flat (thats also with playing a game @ the same time)

jaani · 04-13-2002, 04:09 AM

Damn, if only I wasn't so busy with work/study, I'd race out and buy one.

Brad · 04-13-2002, 06:22 AM

I have a parrallel port 2x around here. it takes like 2 hours to do a cd. it's handy at times though, being parrallel port, it'll work in anything from win95 upward.

jaani · 04-13-2002, 07:28 AM

Unless you've got a MAX o' course.

zoson · 04-13-2002, 11:09 AM

I have the teac W524E. It runs at 24x10x48.
got it about one month ago for 81 dollars off of pricewatch. It's a great drive.
-Zoson

RedTalon19 · 04-13-2002, 11:27 AM

i just ordered a 40x liteon drive from newegg as well at a 100 spool of 32x media. now i am not limited to only burning those disks at 32x, thats just the guarantee speed at which these disks will burn without flaw due to the disk..... i've heard 24x media being used in a 40x drive with little to no coasters....

$112 shipped for the drive only

i would go for plextor as they are teh best but liteon is almost as good and burns faster due to the time in which it steps up its buring speed....

EMC2 · 04-13-2002, 01:10 PM

Janni - use a Toshiba SD-M1612S DVD-ROM drive for the source disk in those cases

04-10-2002, 02:20 PM	#1
ECUPirate Hottest Stank of them All Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington, DC area Posts: 533	What CD Burner should I buy? umm.. what CD Burner should I buy? I'm probably going to give my Dad my pLextor 12/10/32A drive.... __________________ Does a radioactive cat have 18 half lifes? --Kenny my pimpin' rig: ...previously poorly cooled... 486DX-2 66mhz @ 75mhz, 4Mb ram, shared, 256Mb hard drive Onboard VGA, watercooled, of course 16-color monitor, labtec speakers, 28kbs USRobotics modem Windows XP (think about it) Maze 3, DDen GF3 block, Eheim 1250, econoline van HC, 1/2" hose w/ 5/8" fittings Comair 172mm fan

04-10-2002, 02:42 PM	#2
Joe The Pro/Life Support System Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,041	Get a Pioneer DVR-A03 DVDR it burns CDR and CDRW at 8X speeds also and 2X dvdR __________________ Joe - I only take this hat off for one thing... ProCooling archive curator and dusty skeleton.

04-10-2002, 02:46 PM	#3
WebMasta33 Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nebraska Posts: 526	www.newegg.com has a 12x10x32 for 92 bucks OEM and a 40x12x40 OEM for 140 bucks And it has some external 40x12x40 USB 2.0 for 190... Depending on the money you have, I'd just go for the 40x. It's a damn good price considering most places I looked had the 24x plextor for the same price. __________________ ========== --Soyo KT333 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition) --AMD 1.4 @ 1.54 (11x) --768mb of PC2100 (@140FSB) --Asus v8200 GeForce3 @ 210/490 --Maxtor 40gb Quiet + 2 IBM 40gb 60GXPs (removable) + 8gb WD --Audigy --Maze 3, DD Gf3 block, 2x BIX, Eheim1250 ===========

04-10-2002, 04:03 PM	#4
ECUPirate Hottest Stank of them All Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington, DC area Posts: 533	I have the A03 drive. It's slow at reading... sucks if that's the only drive in that system. __________________ Does a radioactive cat have 18 half lifes? --Kenny my pimpin' rig: ...previously poorly cooled... 486DX-2 66mhz @ 75mhz, 4Mb ram, shared, 256Mb hard drive Onboard VGA, watercooled, of course 16-color monitor, labtec speakers, 28kbs USRobotics modem Windows XP (think about it) Maze 3, DDen GF3 block, Eheim 1250, econoline van HC, 1/2" hose w/ 5/8" fittings Comair 172mm fan

04-10-2002, 04:24 PM	#5
Joe The Pro/Life Support System Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,041	seems to do ok for me. but then again you can get a 50$ dvd-rom that will read nice and just use the ao3 for writing like I do. burned over 360 DVD sides on my A03 already __________________ Joe - I only take this hat off for one thing... ProCooling archive curator and dusty skeleton.

04-10-2002, 06:03 PM	#6
Adam Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Land of sky blue water-cooling Posts: 20	go with joe on this one.....the a03 works sweet.... get a pioneer slot load dvd drive and your set. Ive never had a problem with mine, it works great

04-11-2002, 01:48 AM	#7
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	I like the asus 40x myself, but anything from a well known company will be fine. __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

04-11-2002, 01:51 AM	#8
Haddy Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 434	get a nice 24x the 32and40x are just like 30sec faster no big deal

04-12-2002, 07:31 PM	#9
EMC2 Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dark Side of the Moon Posts: 365	* Prefers Plextor's *

04-13-2002, 01:27 AM	#10
jaani Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 40	Check out http://www.cdr-info.com/ for some of the best CD-R/RW (and DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, hehe so many standards) reviews around. Personally my feeling is Plextor (for quality, however ripping copyrighted CD's is an issue with their drives), Ricoh or Teac (good value, fast), or LiteOn (bloody fast). Ultimately, however, the differences in speed will only equate to a couple of seconds of extra waiting, though it may make a considerable difference cost wise. And also, as I think someone else mentioned, there's really not much point in buying a 40x CD-Writer and expecting to be able to write at 40x; the write media is simply not keeping up with the drives, and the best you can hope for (realistically) is 16x-24x. In Melbourne (Australia), finding CD-R's rated for 40x is a major problem. Good ol' Emtec 16x for me, however. Well...hehe...I have a 2x burner....HP 8100i (actually it began as a 4x burner, but since it only has a 512k buffer and no burn-proof or similar, I have to step down to 2x or it'll burn coasters). This is getting a tad annoying, cough 40 minutes per cd! __________________ jaani. website. computer. e-mail.

04-13-2002, 01:49 AM	#11
Haddy Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mississippi Posts: 434	hehe yamaha (aka delta cdrw, loud as crap) 16x will do a full 700mb cd in like 5min flat (thats also with playing a game @ the same time)

04-13-2002, 04:09 AM	#12
jaani Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 40	Damn, if only I wasn't so busy with work/study, I'd race out and buy one. __________________ jaani. website. computer. e-mail.

04-13-2002, 06:22 AM	#13
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	I have a parrallel port 2x around here. it takes like 2 hours to do a cd. it's handy at times though, being parrallel port, it'll work in anything from win95 upward. __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

04-13-2002, 07:28 AM	#14
jaani Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 40	Unless you've got a MAX o' course. __________________ jaani. website. computer. e-mail.

04-13-2002, 11:09 AM	#15
zoson Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: X Posts: 204	I have the teac W524E. It runs at 24x10x48. got it about one month ago for 81 dollars off of pricewatch. It's a great drive. -Zoson __________________ Core i7 930 @ 4254Hz 22x193 \| ASUS R3E 901 BIOS \| 12GB Mushkin Blackline 3x4GB @ 1547MHz 7-8-7-24-1N \| Lian Li PC-A10B 2x EVGA GTX275 SLI @ 720/1266/1566 \| 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD Raid 0 \| 3x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint 7.2K Raid 5 \| Corsair 950TX H2O \| Enzotech Sapphire Rev.A \| EK-FB RE3 \| Swiftech - 2x MCW60/GTX275 Unisink, MCP655b, MCRes Micro.v2 \| 3x HWLabs SR1-120 あなたの神への弓 Time isn't wasted, when you're gettin' wasted.

04-13-2002, 11:27 AM	#16
RedTalon19 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: PA Posts: 96	i just ordered a 40x liteon drive from newegg as well at a 100 spool of 32x media. now i am not limited to only burning those disks at 32x, thats just the guarantee speed at which these disks will burn without flaw due to the disk..... i've heard 24x media being used in a 40x drive with little to no coasters.... $112 shipped for the drive only i would go for plextor as they are teh best but liteon is almost as good and burns faster due to the time in which it steps up its buring speed.... __________________ i am myself not anybody else and thats who i am and not who you are so dont be like me because i am myself.

04-13-2002, 01:10 PM	#17
EMC2 Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dark Side of the Moon Posts: 365	Janni - use a Toshiba SD-M1612S DVD-ROM drive for the source disk in those cases

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