Decent 52x burner?!

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sharkeeper

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Is it true that you have to hold down a button for two sec on the Sony models?

I'm looking at putting these in 1394 enclosures with oxford 911 chipsets.

I'm told that Lite-On is junk. They basically were crap in the mid 90's but everyone around here seems to like them. (cheap perhaps?)

I prefer a true CAV design so there are no stops during the burn to ramp up the speed. That is not good.

I'm more concerned for durability and reliability. I don't tolerate things that blow up, disintegrate during use or have the potential to set off our halon system! That's very, very bad! :|

-DAK-
 
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ed21x

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Oct 12, 2001
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recently Liteon has gotten really good, but i still feel my plexwriter has the upper hand in reading scratched up CD's. Also, I don't think its possible do achieve CAV at 52x, so it works somewhat like zone-CLV or something like that where different sections read at different speeds. Its like that for all models. For absolute solid quality, stick with plextor :)
 
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duhh

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I've owned 3 liteons, and had very few problems. The one problem I did have, was burning during a lightning storm without a surge protector. Suprise, the power surged and went out, and the drive was crap form there on out. Can't blame liteon for that one. What can I say, I really wanted that disc. Anyway, no problems on the other drives.

Liteon and Plex are basically the kings of copy protection, access times, etc.
Club.cdfreaks.com is a forum specifically about CDs/DVDs basically. Good info to be found there.

Liteons aren't so popular because they are cheap. They are popular because they kick butt, the cost factor is pure gravy.

And on the topic of scratched CDs, I keep cds in my car just sitting on the passenger seat, floor, whatever. I am yet to find a disk that I can not read back to my Liteon (currently using a 40x)
 
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SuperSix

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Oct 9, 1999
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Don't forget about the Asus 52x unit - MaxumumPC loves it - most of it's performance is the best ever measured.

THey can be had for just a few dollars more than the Lite-on, have a longer warranty, and you have a better chance getting warranty service from ASus (should you need it) than Lite-On.

I don't care for the look, but I could learn to live with it.
 
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jbahseng

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I owned a few Lite-on and Plextor. The quality of Plextor (in term of built and appearance) is better but performance wise you won't notice too much different, I'll get a Lite-on if i were you.
 
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m1ke101

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I've had two liteon burners, and both have been very good to me. I've only had one problem with my 48x, and it wasn't even the burners fault, it was a nforce2 problem.
 
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