Best bang for the buck? (DVD burner)

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So I am looking to spend $50 of less on a DVD burner. What is the best drive I can get for this price? Should I look for a sony? Is there something better? Thanks guys
 
That wouldn't be any surprise there. One brand to definitely stay away from if you run across it is Artec! Those are definitely fly apart cheap junk! poor excuses for drives there. :mad: GGggrrr! I can imagine Memorex or Samsung isn't too far above those. :rolleyes:
 
I think I am going to go with the sony, only because in a lot of the reviews the samsung is not working well with vista. Too bad the sony is out of stock! Grrr!
 
i have samsung products all over my house and none of them have ever given me any trouble... however i've never had one in my computer. I was thinking about getting that drive but now... maybe not lol.
 
I'm not a Sony fan. Don't get me wrong, their products are good, it's just them I have a problem with. I'd go with a Lite-On or NEC. I have 3 NEC 3550-As and Lite-On and they are all in wonderful condition considering I burn at least one disk a day in any of them.
 
Sony had Lite-On making their drives for them and now seem to moved to Nec. At this time with a new case in the works I have to ponder on going with an 18x ide or sata model and go for a new board with only one ide channel just have 3 not 2 pci slots. The present case has two ide burners with a board having 4 pci slots.
 
i've used sony, ricoh, pioneer, plextor, lg, lite-on, and samsung (in THAT exact order) and my FAVORITE was plextor, and SECOND was the samsung.

Considering the fact that the CHEAPEST plextor i owned cost $160, and the samsung only cost me $39, i'd say i'm fairly IMPRESSED with the samsung. It's the SATA 18x model. There's already a replacement for it that's 20x, but i haven't had any experience with that drive.

It does a very good job, and is very imparticular about discs. My LG was good, but very fussy. It would burn badly on bad media, and good on good media. The plextor would burn PERFECTLY on everything, but cost $160+ and only lasted me 1-2 years. The samsung, however, was affordable, and does a pretty good job, regardless of the quality of media used (although never as good as the plextor, keep in mind)

I've been happy with them, tho. They're 183's
 
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heyman421 said:
i've used sony, ricoh, pioneer, plextor, lg, lite-on, and samsung (in THAT exact order) and my FAVORITE was plextor, and SECOND was the samsung.

Considering the fact that the CHEAPEST plextor i owned cost $160, and the samsung only cost me $39, i'd say i'm fairly IMPRESSED with the samsung. It's the SATA 18x model. There's already a replacement for it that's 20x, but i haven't had any experience with that drive.

It does a very good job, and is very imparticular about discs. My LG was good, but very fussy. It would burn badly on bad media, and good on good media. The plextor would burn PERFECTLY on everything, but cost $160+ and only lasted me 1-2 years. The samsung, however, was affordable, and does a pretty good job, regardless of the quality of media used (although never as good as the plextor, keep in mind)

I've been happy with them, tho. They're 183's
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I have the Samsung 18x SATA and love it, they look good, too. Noticeable difference from my last Memorex 16x:rolleyes:<Junk....
 
Plextor is one of the top brands as well as those that make the Sony models. LG is the current one up there along with Sony/Nec. But no matter what make you pick having crap blank media will usually see bad times. I've seen good brands have some problems like opening a factory sealed container of blank dvd media to see what? They won't burn anything due to some track data already on them. Yet the same brand is top for cd-rs! I rarely toss a cd-r with their label on it.
 
All dvd-r's have track data already written to them. +r's do not.

what you were probably experiencing was problems due to -r's onboard hardware-level copy protection, which prevents you from making a 2nd generation -r copy.
 
The problem was data written on them where nothing should have been seen at all! When I buy any others no track data is ever seen. The only protection against copying is seen on retail product disks and not on blank media. Blank disks are supposed to be just that blank disks.
 
i wasn't making this up, dvd-r discs have a portion of the lead-in written to the disc at the factory, while +r discs do not

the portion of the lead-in assigns the book-type (which is why you cannot set booktype on a -r disc, and only on +r discs) so that even after being burned, the disc is recognizeable as a blank disc (opposed to a dvd-rom booktype original) and prohibits making a 2nd generation copy of the disc. (really)

anyone who has a blank -r disc around their computer right now can verify that this is true
 
When going to burn anything onto those disks the amount of availble burn space simply wasn't there due to previous data written to them. This was only seen with one container of that brand and some mixed in with another and never seen again. The thought on those was that blanks used for testing got mixed in with the regular product line at the factory and were sealed and shipped out. I can pull out a ton of dvd-rs and not find one thing on them on different brands of media. That's actual fact there.
 
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