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....

Get a Pioneer DVR-A03 DVDR it burns CDR and CDRW at 8X speeds also :) and 2X dvdR

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.

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

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 :)

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

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

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

* Prefers Plextor's *

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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! :eek:

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)

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

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.

Unless you've got a MAX o' course. :D

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

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....

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