Good quiet SATA DVD burner

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TWO515TY

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I'm moving to a different case pretty soon and I thought it would be a good opportunity to finally get a SATA DVD burner. In my new case, I'll be going with only 1 optical drive as opposed to the two I currently have, since I rarely use discs at all.


The main thing I'm looking for is that the drive is quiet when reading discs. I don't care so much about the noise level when burning since I rarely ever burn discs and the duration of the noise wouldn't be long enough to bother me. On the other hand, my Pioneer 111D screams when I'm watching a DVD movie, unlike my Samsung D162C DVD-ROM which is inaudible while watching the same movie.

So the main question is, what's a reliable SATA DVD drive that reads discs quietly?
 
whatever you do, don't make the same mistake i did. i bought a lite-on - goddamn thing sounds like a jet taking off.
 
Man, those Lite-On are loud as hell....hahaha. I just got me one of those new Pioneer drives. It's pretty decent, $15 at a trade show.
 
The Samsung drives are known to be very quiet. I have the exact model Danny linked to, and its very quiet compared to my Lite-On drives.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. I went ahead and ordered the SH-203N since Newegg had it with free shipping and it has lightscribe (not that I'd ever use it, but since it would cost the same as the 203B after shipping I figured it wouldn't hurt).
 
I have the 203N, and it is a great drive. It is nearly silent. I use LightScribe all the time, so this was the perfect drive for me.
 
I just bought that Samsung too. Although it's significantly quieter than my "jet-engine" Lite-On, it makes a barely audible but very irritating high pitch whine while the disk is spinning. Not sure if I just have a quirky drive, but it's back to the Lite-on for me.
 
Jodiuh said:
I hated that drive.

So the only difference between the 203's is lightscribe?
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Can't remember for sure but I recall another being that the read value for the N model was slightly lower, 12x instead of 16x. Try CDfreaks to be sure.
 
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