Deciding Between Burners

[Soupman]

What's up y'all!

OK, I was gonna go with the NEC first.

I started talking to one of my friends, and he told me to go with this Plextor burner instead. He told me they're a lot better quality.

Another bud of mine told me to go with this Samsung model.

I think you can see the dilemma I'm in here. :lol:

All I'm lookin' for is a good burner that'll get the job done. I don't care what brand it is, as long as it does the job it was meant to do, and do it well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[maury73]

Samsung-Toshiba-NEC are all the same thing: there a joint venture for producing optical devices.
Plextor uses Lite-on opticals and mechs: they are a very little better in access times (but who notice that in a CD/DVD?), they cost as much as double and have identical optical performance.

So it's up to you, I personally use Samsung: tried the Plextor, but found no improvement in speed or quality despite the quite double price.

 

[maury73]

And.. stop writing in bold!!!!!
It's like if you would scream!

 

[177ine177ine]

Go with the 3550 Nec. Often one of the best sellers and is by far the indisputed king in reliability and price. All my systems have used this CD/DVD drive and I have or have had ZERO problems with it.[/list]

And ya, the bold thing is annoying.

 

[Guest]

Just go with the cheapest you can get; Liteon, NEC...whatever; they'll fail anyway after some time.

And for crying out loud; STOP writing in bold...

 

[Soupman]

Thanks a lot.

Wow, I didn't think writing in bold would be that annoying. :lol:

My apologizes.

 

[DaveUK]

I've used tons for my own / other builds, but my last couple of burners have been Sony and i've been very happy with them.

Currently using DRU-810a, nice because it has interchangeable fascias (white looks nice with P150 )

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PS. STAY. AWAY. FROM. MSI.

unless firmware updates get you hard

thanks.

 

[nukemaster]

Sony's drives are made by liteon (no face plates tho)
so what ever is cheaper at the time

Get 3 Nec's and there ya go....like to see all 3 of those go before the all mighty Plextor(overpriced as always)