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CD-RW Brands Reliability Poll

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Athlon4all

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I may be building a system for a friend of a friend, and I'm looking at spending as little as possible (my budget for the CD-RW is a $75 Retail) and I just took a peek on Pricewatch and AOpen, Asus, Samsung, and Yamaha all have Burners around that price range and I'm wondering weather they're bad or good, or great, so plz vote if u can. Thanks!
 
From the ones you had listed, i'd pick the Yamaha. Phillips cd-rw's are turds, the AOpen not bad but LOUD, and no experience with the Asus or Samsung. Personally though, i'd get the Lite-On. I have their x24, and it's solid as can be. Plextors are extremely nice, but their prices aren't really that competitive - they'll likely be out of your price range.
 
Should add Lite-On for all the AT people who have it.

I have a Teac 4x4x32 been doing good but will move to Lite-On due to the all the people talking a good about it, oh and Nero 5.5 comes with it 🙂
 
LG's 24x is really good. I just bought mine and it does SD2. Very quiet and has 8MB buffer, uses only two zones instead of three.
 
Yamaha, Plextor, TEAC, and Ricoh all make solid, dead-reliable burners. I would avoid Lite-On due to recent RMA issues.
 
Funny how I was the first to mention TEAC..
I'll buy TEAC Drives till I die (Prices are amazing, and performance never fails)
 
I'm using Creative Blaster 8x4x32, and have installed this burner in 3 other systems. No problems what so ever with the hardware, once software was adjusted for os, everything smooth. For the price, can't beat it. Yes, a Ricoh or Plextor it isn't...
 
Just got myself a Lite-On this week and I love it. I used it to replace my older HP model, which was also a good CD-RW.
 
I'm trying to choose between the lite on and plextor.

Lite ons were about $80-85 and plextors are $135+

Were looking at like a $50 difference. I know some die hard plextor fans and I'm kind of leaning towards it for the quality. But then again if the lite on is comparable to it, why not save the money.

I guess I'll be getting a lite on cause in a few years there will be cheaper and better drives on the market.
 
I have used over 10 burners, and 0 have gone bad or had problems, this is going back to an old school Pinnacle Micro external SCSI 2X that cost well over $1000

The only brand to stay away from is Philips, they make some crizappy drives
 


<< Funny how I was the first to mention TEAC.. >>



Don't mean to burst your bubble...... but look at post #2 and post #6........
 
I voted for yamaha. having owned a lite-on cdrom drive many years ago, unless they are using rebadged drives from a respectable manufacturer, I think a lot of ppl are gonna find out the hard way just how crummy their drives longterm reliability really is
 
# 2 would have been me 🙂

I've had my Teac 24X/10X/40X drive for a couple of weeks now.. and I absolutely love it.

I bought the OEM version , for a whopping $109.00 from Mwave.. it came bundled with Nero 5.5.

In my short time with it, I've burned two 100 disc spindles, without one coaster. For the price of this drive, I am very pleased. The Storage review site, mentions the OEM version of this drive has a slower DAE speed.. 32X I believe.. compared to the retail version, which is higher.
 
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