THE MOST DURABLE DRIVE

[Dinski]

Hey, guys, what's your opinion on what the most durable, strong and long-lasting CD-ROM and DVD-ROM are?
What do you think about the following drives:
Sony, Acer, Samsung, NEC, Teac.
I'm not interesting in writing devices.

 

[r2k]

Tell you what, omit Acer from that list RIGHT NOW! The least durable of all...At least that's my experience with one of their 40x readers.

 

[Arrow]

Sonys and Toshibas seem to be good, in my experience.
Avoid Creative by all means.

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[Dinski]

Thanks, guys.
Anyway, I have a long-lasting experience with Acer and still no problems... But maybe it depends.
On SONY: I still don't know anything about these drives. But here, in Bulgaria, a SONY CD-ROM is $23 and a SONY DVD is $37 USD - they are cheapest drives here... This fact is troubling me a few.
What about BTC?

 

[r2k]

My Teac 24x10x40x writer is awesome (but I've had it for a relatively short time; under 6 months). I've heard very good things about Teac CD-ROM readers too (from a friend and some electronic hardware stores). I've also heard good things in support of Sony and Pioneer.

But what about Asus? This time from first hand experience I tell you it's a very good one. I changed the Acer with an Asus 40x (CD-S400A) and it's just great. It has some mechanism for reducing the noise and vibration and it IS VERY EFFECTIVE (called DDRS-2). It's the most quiet drive I've heard and that's big considering the Teac writer reads reasonably quiet at 40x too. It's also one of the fastest drives on the block. AND I've never seen an Asus turn bad or returned YET (and believe me many of my friends own one - from 40x to 52x readers and 24x and 32x writers).

 

[Dinski]

Most of my friend use TEAC CD. They say these devices read almost everything. The problem is that here the price of TEAC CD-ROM is higher than the price of SONY DVD!

 

[r2k]

LOL why?! I live in Iran (and the price for PC parts are very comparable to the US and Western European markets) and here, a Teac 40x CD-ROM reader costs about half a 16x Pioneer DVD-ROM reader (~$25-30/$55-60)...

But in your shoes I'd get the Sony DVD-ROM drive...

 

[lakedude]

I just bought a Lite On 16x for $40 delivered. Normally you should not care too much about the really long term when it comes to computers. As an example, if you OC a CPU and cut its lifespan down to only say 5 years do you really care? Think about how fast the industry moves and what a 5 year old cpu is running at today. We would be talking about a P1 maybe 166 which would be a joke in todays market. DVD roms are no different. Only a few years ago they were 1 or 2x and now we are up to 16x. The future will bring blue light lazers and will make todays products next to useless. Plus for 40 bucks who cares as long as it lasts a couple of years?

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.

 

[Dinski]

Here: CD-ROMs: SONY:$23, TEAC - $40
DVD-ROMs: SONY: $38, BTC - $39

 

[Dinski]

Yes, but think about this:
Do you see any development in speed of CD-ROMS for the last several years?
Some components are progressing less faster than others, right?

 

[lakedude]

cds, no not really but new stuff like dvd will displace cds. 48xcd = 7200KB/sec where 16xdvd = 21,600KB/sec or roughly 3x48xcd or 144xcd. In other words a 16x dvd player is about 3 times faster then a 48x cd player. In the future there will be blue laser dvd-2 or something. You may never be able to play a standard cd at much over 72x or so (kenwood) but some new thing will have more storage and be faster.

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.

 

[Secretninja]

i have a Pioneer 105s i have had it for 18 months now and it still works great. i am replacing it with the Pioneer 106s soon as it has lower cpu overheads and from what i have read this drive is superb as well.

Now thats what I want to know!