MindTrick Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 There are plenty of different DVD burners out there, and choosing between them all for a novice can be confusing. Personally I've heard the best of the lot are BenQ burners. I was using an LG, but it quit after only 8months. I ended up getting a hp 640c with lightscribe, the only reason for that being it was on sale, it was dual layer, I had about only 3gig left for storage, and i needed to get my rips off my Hard Drive :) It seems to be working fine, the buffer varies a bit compared to my lg (My lg held at a steady 99-100 percent, where is the hp varies between 87-100). So what would ya'll recommend, and what do you currently have in your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 What I heard, the LG GSA-4167B, the Benq DW1640 and the Plextor PX-716A (if you can spare the cash for this one since it's real expensive) are your best choices. I've got a Benq and the writer buffer somethimes goes as low as 30% and still I have very high quality burns, 98% with Nero cd-speed. Any burner with only 2MB of cache and speeds of up 16x will have trouble keeping its buffer completely filled: 16x = 21MB/s 2MB buffer buffer empty in 2/21= 0.1s that's not a whole lot of buffer now is it?? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howiepoohs Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Not mine, My generals disk exploaded inside last week and I thought I got all the bits out but it still dont work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremeskiing Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I got an I/O magic Light Scribe burner. It has already burned over 500DVDs since I got it and it is still working fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paniq Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Best bang for the buck is the NEC 3540A at present. Excellent 16x + DL writer that's now on special offer at places as the new NEC 4550 is out and that really just adds DVD-RAM support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindTrick Posted September 29, 2005 Author Share Posted September 29, 2005 I got an I/O magic Light Scribe burner. It has already burned over 500DVDs since I got it and it is still working fine. Do you use the lightscribe dvd's at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I just got an LG Electronics GSA-4167 16x burner. It uses a PCAV method that burns 16x media in 5:40 or less, at least a minute faster than almost any other 16x burner. It's a great drive and only $45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 You know what, I have this cheapo Rosewill DVD-DL burner from newegg.com and it has never let me down. The thing is quiet, blazing fast, and beats the ones at school (i'm a multimedia major, so we have good comp's) by a long shot. Rosewill actually is a respectable brand name. For just $40, I was willing to take the risk. I came out on top on this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 yeap i'd go for the cheapest branded name one... like lg. pioneer... but i got a phillips one (£30 the cheapest i could get was 25 so i didn't care!) i has dl too but can't seem to find the disc's on sale... anywho i use sl disc all the time!!!! btw i got a benq one on my laptop... pretty good but picky on media to what it bruns on (well)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Often times what companies will do is take all of their unsold merchandise in their warehouse and re-brand it. My DVD burner looks like a Phillips, even though It says Rosewill. For all intents and purposes, it probably IS a Phillips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magestorm Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 I just use the one included in my Toshiba Satellite m45. it works beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quig69 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Are any of the drives mentioned the dual layer models? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlvsi Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Personally I have a LiteOn SHW1635S it was relatively cheap at about £45 and it says it can do double layer and dual layer(what`s the difference?), although I haven`t tried it yet. I have had it for a few months now, and so far there have been no problems burning or reading. Oh, and it came with an extra black bezel set....ooohhh!! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atgxtg Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Personally I have a LiteOn SHW1635S it was relatively cheap at about £45 and it says it can do double layer and dual layer(what`s the difference?) This difference is in what type (format) discs it can burn. Double Layer is DVD+R and Dual Layer is DVD-R. This might be important depending on what sort of drives or DVD players you own. It used to be that + and - were incompatable with each other, but these days many manufactueres make drives that can can use either format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Nowadays, every burner I have ever seen burns everything. Anything above $35 will have dual layer DVD+/-R, and burn 16x. Some people like the expensive Pioneer or Benq drives, but most $40-50 models are great values. I, personally, like burning a disc in 5:40 with my LG 4167 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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