Help finding good DVD/CD Drive

[Ravioli]

Its so damn hard to find a good DVD/CD drive cuz theres so many. Basically i want one that can read and write DVDs/CDs and it has to be compatible with this motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130048



Is this one good?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827248006

thanks

 

[Asus]

I have a NEC one and it's awesome. Personally, I don't care that much for Memorex or Philps drives in general.

But if I bought another I would make sure it was SATA and not IDE. I think it's the IDE controller that makes your PC stop activity sometimes when you pop in a CD or want to view it as it spins up. Ever have that happen? I've heard SATA doesn't work the same with optical drives and won't freeze up your other stuff. idk

 

[Nabobalis]

Pioneer-212

 

[Gray Fox]

Nec AD-7173 S, supercheap and I think Sony and Plextor use them for their own models. In any case since BenQ is gone NEC is the only really good choice if you want to get high quality cheap drive.

 

[Asus]

Pioneer-212

The newegg reviews don't show a good light on that one. :O
40% of the people rated it a 1 and 27% rated it a 2 out of 5?

 

[Nabobalis]

The newegg reviews don't show a good light on that one. :O
40% of the people rated it a 1 and 27% rated it a 2 out of 5?

Meh, never liked democracy. I think its brilliant. Maybe newegg got a bad batch. If you're worried about the rating look for the Pioneer 112.

 

[3ssence]

I have an NEC like Asus and i can't fault it at all, but as he said, i'd go for a sata drive. Samsung have a couple of decent sata DVD-RW's out at the moment, it may well be worth giving them a look.

 

[DevgruSeal]

I bought a LG LightScribe not too long ago. I like it, does pretty good.

Haven't used the LightScribe yet, though.

 

[Nabobalis]

I hear Samsung do very good drives.

 

[Asus]

They are good. Although some are more noisy than others.

 

[function9]

So the SATA drives are finally stable? I always heard they were flaky with writing and using certain types of media. I will probably put a new system together this winter and would look to use one of these, if for nothing else than to finally rid my case of the last IDE cable.

 

[Ravioli]

the pioneer drive doesnt work. It reads the Vista DVD but during the installation it says that it cant find any DVD Drive. I later checked on newegg and it says its a DVD Burner, i asked for DVD Burner AND reader!!! Is this the problem? Also, wuts up with the CD-in Connector? Does SATA DVD Drives use these? Cuz my old one does (Not SATA) but there is no plug for it on the pioneer one. plz help idk wut to do...

 

[Asus]

You cannot boot from some DVD drives although I have never personally run into this.

The audio cable from a CD/DVD drive is optional. It will just send the audio through the SATA/IDE cable if it isn't plugged in.

 

[Ravioli]

hm ok. Im gona take an none-sata DVD reader later on today and try using that one. Does it run into any problems if i run the hard drive with SATA and the DVD Drive the "old" way? (do they call it IDE?)

thanks

 

[Asus]

No issues doing it that way. Just make sure you set the jumper correctly on the IDE drive. If it's by itself then either set to Master or if it has a 'single' option then do that.

 

[Ravioli]

the IDE DVD Drive worked fine, so everything works now. Thanks for the help