what brand for CDRW?

[hyenolie]

can someone tell me whats the prefferences on cdrws. whats the word on em? which is best and most durable around here? some help please.

 

[Shuzer]

When it comes to CD/DVD burners, I'd only trust Sony, Creative or NEC. Always the best prices for the performance on their burners (or atleast the ones I've had experience with buying/using).

Generally speaking, any decent brand (Samsung, NEC, Sony, etc) will perform the same as any other burner (barring burn/read speeds and buffer sizes all are identical) and last a good long while.

Edit: Forgot to mention, 48x16x48 drives work very well. I've been pleased with my Sony CD burner and my NEC DVD burner

 

[jonbob]

I have had nothing but good experience with lite-on. I think they are OEM for a lot of the larger brands too.

 

[Maxi]

Also i've had no bad experiences with plextor.

 

[Asus]

CD burners...A lot of people perfer plextor.
Some Lite-On and I use TDK drives.
For dvd burners I would look to Pioneer/Sony.

Honestly...I stay away from Memorex CD-Rs and Burners. Not sure why but I just don't care for the brand.

 

[Anable]

Asus is suggesting a Lite-On/TDK burner. Am I the only dork amused by that?

 

[hyenolie]

ok did i miss something, i thought i was a nerd too.

 

[Asus]

oops, ment to say...
"a TDK drive"
Lite-on = Manufacturer
TDK = Brand

The Lite-On 52x drive is probably the best out there.
CD-RW Drive / Burning Software Reviews

 

[RABIES]

Anyone found any CD's that can hit 52x? Let alone CR-RW's that hit 10x?

 

[Asus]

Anyone found any CD's that can hit 52x? Let alone CR-RW's that hit 10x?

52x CD-R Taiyo Yuden disks are quality.
Speedy 24x CD-RWs

 

[hyenolie]

hey asus, is this any good?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-812&catalog=5&depa=1

 

[Pitt-Bull]

Get the Lite-On

 

[Maxi]

No, get the plextor.

 

[Asus]

hey asus, is this any good?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-812&catalog=5&depa=1

Sony 52x review
I perfer Lite-On drives mostly because of performance.
Plextor are good drives but cost too much and are not quite as good for performance as Lite-On (but like you would notice).

Plextor 52x review Lite-On 52x review
I just linked to the conclusion but you can page back to read the review.
Notice the Lite-On is the only one that got the 9 for performance.

 

[hyenolie]

ya i saw that, im goona go read it again, all were 8 after i looked at a couple of brands. hmm.. maybe lite on it is my friends.

P.S. i just came out of a post telling someone, if they goona post facts, they need to back em up with links, he had no links so i wrote a 2 sentence protocal for him and others to follow, thanks asus for the work regarding the links, thanks again, peace.

 

[peterhoang2002]

no, get the cheap 4x/2x/32x drive. lol jk. i have an old 12x tdk one and it works great; burns full 700mb cd in 6:50 @ 12.1x average with 99% success rate ( bad ones were caused by computer crashes/reboots). ive also had an old 8x iomega which was a piece of crap as it only had like a 50% success rate (old burner befor "buffer" technolgy was availibble for cd-rws)