I'm one click away from ordering the parts for a new computer but have yet to decide on a DVDRW drive. I do a lot of ripping with EAC and am wondering what is good now. I know Plextor and Liteon used to be the go to drives. What about now? Thanks.
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Best Optical Drive?
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silent-circuit
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I stay away from Pioneer, ASUS, TSST (Toshiba Samsung) and many of the lesser known brands because they don't support forced bitsetting with DVD+R media and I think that's idiotic in this day and age. Don't know about Plextor, but I don't think they build their own drives anymore.
Stick with LiteOn, Sony Optiarc, and LG to avoid unnecessary bullshit. Any of their drives should be fine -- they're all practically the same within a given product line anymore, just disabling and enabling a few minor features in firmware. Decide if you care about Lightscribe or not, and go from there. Any modern drive should work fine with EAC.
Stick with LiteOn, Sony Optiarc, and LG to avoid unnecessary bullshit. Any of their drives should be fine -- they're all practically the same within a given product line anymore, just disabling and enabling a few minor features in firmware. Decide if you care about Lightscribe or not, and go from there. Any modern drive should work fine with EAC.
I stay away from Pioneer, ASUS, TSST (Toshiba Samsung) and many of the lesser known brands because they don't support forced bitsetting with DVD+R media and I think that's idiotic in this day and age. Don't know about Plextor, but I don't think they build their own drives anymore.
Stick with LiteOn, Sony Optiarc, and LG to avoid unnecessary bullshit. Any of their drives should be fine -- they're all practically the same within a given product line anymore, just disabling and enabling a few minor features in firmware. Decide if you care about Lightscribe or not, and go from there. Any modern drive should work fine with EAC.
Actually, it depends on what discs you're going to burn. Some (though not all) of the burners from Lite-On, Sony Optiarc and LG produce horrible write quality, almost consistently producing coaster after coaster regardless of the write speed or media used (or rather, the burned seem to have completed successfully, but none of the other readers could even read those discs). And LG has not produced a DVD-only (non-Blu-ray) burner with decent write quality in the past two years other than a now-discontinued PATA 22x model. Conversely, some of the very best writers in write quality do not support forced bitsetting at all whatsoever (well, actually, the Pioneer burners automatically bitset DVD+R DL media to DVD-ROM whether you want it or not, but do not bitset single-layer DVD+R media with their stock firmware).
And not all drives from anyone produce equally good write quality results.
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I have a couple of the Pioneer drives that only bitset +DL media and I have yet to find a fix / alternate firmware to bitset +SL media. Tossed them for this reason.
I have a couple of the Pioneer drives that only bitset +DL media and I have yet to find a fix / alternate firmware to bitset +SL media. Tossed them for this reason.
Actually, I still have a Pioneer SATA burner in my main rig - in addition to an LG Blu-ray burner. The only reason for the Pioneer right now is that the LG does only a mediocre job (quality-wise) of burning onto DL DVD media and CD-R media (in fact, the slowest supported speed for CD burns with the LG Blu-ray burner is 16x - too fast for good-sounding music CDs). But the LG Blu-ray burner produces better write quality on single-layer DVD+/-R media.
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I'm one click away from ordering the parts for a new computer but have yet to decide on a DVDRW drive. I do a lot of ripping with EAC and am wondering what is good now. I know Plextor and Liteon used to be the go to drives. What about now? Thanks.
I have the LG DVD-RW drive that i got from like newegg not long ago (still probably there) and works great, and i have on my HTPC a ASUS DVD-RW that works great. I also recently bought a BD-Drive (HP) for $90 and its DVD-RW too.