dvdrom

[tsu]

eh, not sure if this is a stupid question or not (or does that line make it instantly dumb? ), but.. are there any 'better' dvdrom drive than others? better brands, etc? I'm trying to stay under 200$ (preferrably around 150$ though). Pioneer good?

 

[MrBond]

Are thouse US funds? Because most DVDROM drives are much cheaper then that, check out newegg.com. The pioneer drives are said to be among the best, but the slot load ones are notoriously loud. I don't notice that, because my CPU fan is so loud it drowns out the noise. Toshiba makes good drives as well, except they only rip at 2x. Newegg has the pioneer ones off and on, recently they've had Aopen drives, which are rebadged pioneer units.

 

[drewski]

only the toshiba 16x drives have the 2x DAE issue.

the slot loaders are cool. there are two pioneer 16x drives the 105/115 and 106/116. the 1*5's are ata33, and the 1*6's are ata66.

you'll probably not max-out either interface, but hey, why not get the later one, if there is no real big difference in price.

 

[lkf]

Pioneer is a good DVDROM so go for it.

 

[Pauli]

<< only the toshiba 16x drives have the 2x DAE issue. >>


Uh, toshiba 16x only rips DVDs at 2x. DAE is around 8x-9x. Still not very good, though. Very quiet drive and compatible with CloneCD, so still a good deal.

 

[zorglub257]

what! ata66 for a dvd
do you have the model and specs please,
i have to get this drive..

 

[TunaBoo]

<< what! ata66 for a dvd
do you have the model and specs please,
i have to get this drive.. >>



Pioneer 16x slot 106S from mwave

 

[Noriaki]

Why would you care about ATA66 for a DVDROM?

16x DVD going full out is less than 22MB/s and 1x which is what you use for DVD playing is a meager ~1.3MB/s

40x CD going full out is only about 6MB/s.


I had Pioneer 10x and a Toshiba 12x DVD ROM I prefer the Toshiba because it's quieter and it reads CDR/CDRW discs better.

But the Pioneer is not a bad drive.

 

[tsu]

Much less expensive than I had thought

Then again, it'd just be nice to have a different DVD drive that.. I dunno, WORKS My Old creative dxr2 is aging :disgust:

I think the pioneer 106s sounds delicious for my new system thanks for your help, guys!

 

[salman327]

THe pioneer 106s is the one i'm gonna get for my new rig

 

[MrBond]

<< Why would you care about ATA66 for a DVDROM? >>



It's my understanding, that when you hook two drives to the same channel, it defaults to the lowest speed device. So if you have an ata33 DVDROM, and its hooked up on the same chain as your ata100 HDD, it will cause the HDD to go at the ata33 speeds.

Or is that not correct?

 

[Shmorq]

I don't believe that's the case anymore. Hard drives will continue to run at ATA100 even when a CD-ROM with only an ATA33 interface is connected on the same cable.

By the way, what's the point of a 16X DVD drive if it can rip movies in only 2X? I haven't seen any software come out on DVD's so I don't see any other use for it. I'm obviously talking about the Toshiba.

 

[MrBond]

Ahhh, ok. I hadn't heard anything latly about one drive slowing down the other, but I didnt know if it still existed.

Usually the higher speed dvdrom drives also read CDROM's faster. My 16x pioneer reads CDs at 48x, some of the 10 and 8x drives read only at 40x.