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Recommending a DVD+/-RW Drive
manutd_2
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in Techie Stuff
was thinking about about adding a new DVD+/-RW Drive to my pc.
has anyone got any good recommedations.
i was thinking about buying this Hp drive with lightscribe technology, from ebuyer.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=85966
if anyone has used this HP drive or can recommend a better drive, please reply.
has anyone got any good recommedations.
i was thinking about buying this Hp drive with lightscribe technology, from ebuyer.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=85966
if anyone has used this HP drive or can recommend a better drive, please reply.
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The Pioneer 109 are good drives
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a retail box would be nice so i dont have to bother to buy the wires and other stuff
key factor in my decision is relibility0 -
Not much to buy tbh for a retail just use the excisting IDE cable your cd or dvd already uses. Its best not to have cdrom or dvd connected to same ide cable with a hard drive. For software, just use nero assuming you got a fairly recent legit copy.
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shrek101 wrote:The Pioneer 109 are good drives
And are on offer at http://www.svp.co.uk/ for £35.99 + p&p.
Sorry you have just missed the 99p shipping offer tho'
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The NEC ND3520 is the best around at the moment, or the fractionally older ND3500. Try googling some reviews on it. There's also custom firmware for it to remove the rip lock and region lock.
It's cheap too. Just £35.
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=8317&GroupID=42"Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."0 -
what is a rip lock?0
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Sorry, correction to my last post. Go for the LG GSA-4163B if you can. In my opinion that is probably the best, followed by the NEC ND35xx, then the Pioneer 109.
Rip lock, it's applied in the firmware, it limits the drive in only allowing it to rip (copy) a dvd at the standard read speed, which is 1x. Very slow. There's some great custom firmware for the NEC ND35xx that removes this though, and makes your drive region free.
Have a look at this web site (https://www.cdrinfo.com), they do 25 page reviews of the above drives!"Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."0 -
Yes, you do have to buy special discs in order to make use of the 'LightScribe' technology; it uses the same laser that writes the data to etch an image into a layer of dye on the upperside of the disc, producing a professional-quality greyscale image.Mr_Skint wrote:Very nice but do you have to buy their disks for the lightscribe to work or can you do it on any DVDR disk, I was just thinking about the cost of the disks.
Being a new technology, the discs used with the LightScribe system are predictably rather expensive, at around £5 for five of them. Another issue is that the etching process itself takes significantly longer to complete than the act of writing the data.
It's a fabulous idea, but at the moment there's no telling how successful the technology will be. Remember what happened to Betamax?0 -
Apparently a whole host of companies are going to incorpriate lightscribe into there future drives. benq have already created one.0
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