Which DVD-burner?

squads

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• Jan 17, 2006

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I'm looking at DVD-burners on Newegg and wondered if there are advantages to any of these drives:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827129165
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106012
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152059

They all are all the same specs, just different manufacturers. I am partial to the Lite-on drive because I have had several Lite-on drives and they all worked perfectly fine. Please nobody tell me to buy a Plextor because I won't not spending 3X as much money for one.

 

sandrock

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• Jan 17, 2006

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I can vouch for the NEC. I have the 3520A model, have had it for a while now. You can get hacked firmware to allow faster burn speed. I have some Verbatim 8x media that it lets me burn at 12x. I plan on getting a second DVD burner and will be going NEC again.

 

mangyrat

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• Jan 17, 2006

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1 more vote for the NEC
also check you dual layer speeds the light on is only 4x

 

darksparkz

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• Jan 17, 2006

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Definitely NEC, one of the fastest DVD burners out there. BenQ had a nice DW1640, but I think they discontinued that and put out a new DVD burner.

 

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• Jan 17, 2006

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I advise you to get a BenQ drive. The BenQ 1640 or the new BenQ 1650 and BenQ 1655 (this last one with LightScribe support).

 

dawei213

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They are all pretty good drive. I personally have the BenQ 1640 and love it.

 

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cool. I'm gonna get the NEC, they even have a silver version which matches my case

 

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• Jan 17, 2006

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nec and benq drives suggested are awesome, the benq1640 drives have 3rd party firmware that eliminate the riplocking. both drives have 3rd party firmware to flash it rpc1 region(ghost drive) and enable bit-setting.

i vote for the benq1640, built 2 htpc's with it and its fast, cant go wrong with nec's, there's alot of support for these drives because they are widely used.

many nec's are +dvdrw not -. the benq's are dvdrw+-.

you can't go wrong with either of them.