Aopen any good?

[Sniper82]

Was thinking about their 12x/40x DVD-Rom for $35 shipped. Any opinions on brand and quality/reliability?

 

[John]

Aopen = Acer

They make some nice optical drives. I have had good success with them.

 

[human2k]

i use have an aopen 8x4x24 burner, when i built a new rig i decided to put it into my new rig. I booted my new rig up, computer detected drive properly but drive wouldn't read/write at all, for no reason it had died on me. After that I stopped buying aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaopen drives......but it may just be bad luck.

 

[Sniper82]

does anyone know if it will work in XP Pro?

 

[tboo]

Aopen makes top-quality products. They belong to the same company that owns Acer, but they are not made by Aopen. I have had several Aopen products & never had any problems with anything they made-very well made right down to the packaging. I have one of their 24/10/40 burners in my rig right now.

 

[Bushwicktrini]

I have had a couple of AOpen/Acer drives the only thing I did not like was the ripping speed I had a 50x that ripped @ 8x and a 52x that ripped at the same speed. I also have the 8/4/24 buner and had to do a firmware update to get it to see TDK blank cd's after that it worked fine

 

[CraigRT]

If there was only 1 company I would avoid like the plague.... it would be hard to flea from just 1 ......

I was building up a 2nd PC for my house with extra parts, and i went out and picked up a CD-ROM.. Aopen 40X.. it was DOA.. took it back, got a new one, i was happy with it.. 3 weeks later, while playing shogo.. pop, bang. CD drive breaks and Shogo CD is stuck in there forever....... :| refused to take another in return for the 2 previous POS drives and i did as i usually do and insisted on an Asus 50X.. of course no problems since then.. i have never ever had a problem when using an Asus CD-ROM, those Aopen drives are 0 for 2 in my actual personal use... never had such bad luck with a product other than Linksys.. with a record of 1/3 pleasing/working products.. a bad switch and a router that went dead after a month.. Aopen and Linksys are my nightmare companies.. NEVER WILL I BUY AGAIN... carry on!

 

[BD231]

I wouldent mess with A-Open with all the other choices out there. It's best to buy the most popular brands because your more likely to see updates and fixes faster.

 

[TheCorm]

My Sisters boyfriend has an Aopen DVD and he has never complained about it, it's the 12x I think. They look almost identical to the Pioneer slot loaders.

I can't see why it wouldn't run under XP. And as for not choosing Aopen for drivers, I have never installed any drivers for CD/DVD/CD-R and have been running issue free under W2k.

Corm

 

[DAPUNISHER]

<< Was thinking about their 12x/40x DVD-Rom for $35 shipped. Any opinions on brand and quality/reliability? >>

Aopen DVD drives are mainly Pioneer OEMs, I had that exact model for almost a year before selling it in a system a few weeks ago and it worked flawlessly.

 

[RanDum72]

I've had several CD drives and burners from them. Never had a problem.

 

[tboo]

DAPUNISHER is right, Aopen DVD-rom drives are OEM Pioneer drives.

 

[LXi]

Not all models are Pioneer OEMs, they make their own too.

 

[formulav8]

I have a AOpen 24x burner aznd my wife has a 12x AOpen DVD Drive. Both are very good. No problems at all.