Pioneer DVR-110 DVD/CD Writer £29.99 Delivered

nitinpatil

Hi Guys

Is it possible to use this drive as external dvd writter as I got laptop @ home
does any one know what other things I will need ?

Regards
Pats

Sid_Harper

You need an external 5.25" drive enclosure (sometimes also called a caddy). Should be available at PCworld or online, within £30 or so.

If you have a firewire port on your laptop, I'd advise a firewire and USB2.0 (USB2) caddy, else just the USB2 one is fine.

If you don't have USB2 on your laptop (check the specs) but just USB1 you might find I'd suggest getting a USB2 adaptor for your laptop as well.

Finally, make sure you get a power supply with the caddy as USB and firewire ports can't deliver enough power, and that the firewire or USB cable comes with the caddy.

Windows XP and 2000 should automatically allow the use of the drive with software like Nero (or indeed the inbuilt burning in WinXP), but you might need drivers with other operating systems.

roses

Thanks, my other half was just about to order one from Ebuyer before I saw this thread & this is £8 cheaper

nitinpatil, in order for you to use this with your laptop you will need either a firewire or usb 2.0 connection on your laptop. usb 1.0 won't work because it's too slow to write to dvds. It costs about £35 inc delivery for an enclosure that does both usb 2.0 & firewire. You can get an enclosure here, they also sell cheap dvd-rs:

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&product=ENC0005

Sid_Harper

Actually, I'd check out the price of external DVD drives (you can get ones by LG, Freecom, Lacie, etc.)... LG make VERY good drives that do all the DVD writing formats and it'll work out about the same without the hassle!

amancalledchip

https://www.ukdvdr.co.uk do drive enclosures for £19.99inc vat.

http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/shop/Firewire-USB2-Ext.-Storage-5.25-CD-HDD-Enclosure-pr-17365.html

they also do good prices for the r200 inks, at just 79p

welshblob

Hi Guys,
I use and can recommend this free burning software for your basic burning needs.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Cheers
Rob

black_star_2

welshblob wrote:

Hi Guys,
I use and can recommend this free burning software for your basic burning needs.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Cheers
Rob

Ta for the info. Anybody tried this url I can't get to it?

BritBrat

Looks like sites down, can't access it here either.

welshblob

black_star wrote:

Ta for the info. Anybody tried this url I can't get to it?

Looks as if their main site must be down for some reason, you can still get it from here though -> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cdburnerxp.html

titewad_2

amancalledchip wrote:

and its the 110, not the 110D ( which cant read/write to dvd ram)

stonking price....am very tempted

What is dvd ram please?