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damian86   05-21-2009 at 11:29:42 PM

hi can someone recomend me a dvd rw
i had 2 lite ons and they were not good...now theyre resting in peace.
my mobo: Asus P5WD2 E Premium

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starams5   05-21-2009 at 11:38:51 PM
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Hi

I have 3 Lite-Ons and they all had or have the same issues. One of them finally stopped burning altogether. I found a firmware update at the Lite-On site which resolved all of the problems except one, a mechanical problem with the door sticking. I have been looking at the ASUS burner for a replacement.

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hbr   05-22-2009 at 12:12:55 AM
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damian86 wrote :

hi can someone recomend me a dvd rw
i had 2 lite ons and they were not good...now theyre resting in peace.
my mobo: Asus P5WD2 E Premium



I've had pretty good luck with my Liteon drives. Good burn quality
and long term reliability.

Samsung and Pioneer drives are quite well regarded by the
folks on the CDFreaks forums:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f61/top-5 [...] ce-249785/

I also have a LG drive and an old BenQ. Both perform well.

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AKM880   05-22-2009 at 12:54:50 AM
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I personally like LG and Pioneer DVD drives, I have one of each brand and they are pretty solid. Almost 5+ years no problem!

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Kraynor   05-22-2009 at 03:16:17 AM
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I've got an LG burner here, and haven't had any issues with it so far (except that it's a little noisy compared to the rest of my system, but I can live with that)

------------------------------ Antec 1200 -=- Corsair HX1000 -=- GA-X48-DQ6 -=- Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz -=- 8GB RAM @ 800 MHz CL4 -=- 4870X2 800/1000 -=- 2x 500GB 7.2k RPM -=- 150GB 10k RPM
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one-shot   05-22-2009 at 04:45:22 AM
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I have an 3 year old Lite On drive which is also sticking when it is opened. I now have another Lite On that is VERY loud. It spins up and sounds like an engine. Is there a quieter optical drive that may help the OP too?

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hefox   05-22-2009 at 12:46:57 PM
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I usually buy Samsung. I didn't have problems and are really cheap.

------------------------------ Intel i7 920, Gigabyte X58-DS4, 3x1 Corsair DDR3 1333, XFX 260 GTX
Samsung 750Gb F1,Samsung DVD-rw, Hiper Type-M 880W, Coolermaster HAF 932, Logitech Z-5500
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mi1ez   05-22-2009 at 06:15:18 PM
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My lite-on was useless. Got a £20 samsung from amazon! job done. fast and fault free.

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Devastator_uk   05-22-2009 at 06:26:40 PM
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If prefer LG, followed by Samsung then Pioneer.

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djbrad007   05-22-2009 at 06:35:23 PM
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I trust Pioneer.

Have dvr-107d/110d/112d no problem.

Brad

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damian86   05-23-2009 at 05:34:11 PM
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yeah one of my liteons prob was the tray,i could never get it to open....
never mind,i think i will keep an eye on samsung and pioneer.LGs are good but theyre too xpensive on the market just now.
and thanks hbr for that link i think is quite usefull.

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AKM880   05-24-2009 at 02:05:35 AM
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I really had no idea that Lite-On was THAT bad. :P

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starams5   05-24-2009 at 03:23:42 AM
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Me either, I have been using Lite-On since 2003 without any problems, before DVD. Then when DVD burners came out I said why not, they've been good to me so far. The burner's are still burning so I guess it's not a top priority. Been trying to finish up other projects.


Message edited by starams5 on 09-23-2009 at 03:29:02 AM
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starams5   06-16-2009 at 11:49:57 PM
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AKM880 wrote :

I personally like LG and Pioneer DVD drives, I have one of each brand and they are pretty solid. Almost 5+ years no problem!



I took your advice and just ordered 2 LG SATA burner's one for each computer. It will be my 1st time running SATA burner's, hope every thing goes smooth.

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kaelthas18   09-19-2009 at 05:00:04 AM
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i have liteon lh 20a1s... i bought it last december 2007,now it can't read dvd movies and even dvd +r files.. and it has sounds click click click... :pt1cable:

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kaelthas18   09-19-2009 at 05:01:24 AM
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back then in 2003 to 2007 liteon was one of the best.. now its a scrap

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starams5   09-23-2009 at 03:35:17 AM
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I had to send the LG drives back. I bought a new model which had ad-ware embedded in the firmware. There was a big stink at Newegg (comments) since the ad-ware couldn't be removed. LG came out with a fix to remove the ad-ware but it was too late, I had RMA'd the drives and purchased two SAMSUNG burners by then.

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