Floppy and CD question

[wiresdown]

I was wondering who were the power houses in these categories. I think Samsung made good floppy drives but I am not totally sure.

And who makes good cd drives? Pioneer, Sony and Samsung?

Thanks.

 

[Macro2]

floppy-Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Teac, toshiba, NEC

CD - most are good because the technology is perfected but why buy a CD-ROM drive, get a DVD Rom drive or a CD-RW drive... Most will say Sony, Teac, TDK, Toshiba, Lite-on even LG...skip BTC, Benq, Aopen, Top-X.

 

[AngryKid]

I like the Samsung CD-RW and combo drives because they come with an 8MB cache, where as the rest generally come with 2MB.

 

[MDE]

Generally 8MB cache isn't necessary anymore because of underrun protection technologies. My old 16x and my new 52x LiteOn burners only have 2MB and I've only burned coasters that were my fault. LiteOn drives are rock solid and great performers, but at max speed are a tad loud. Many people don't know that LiteOn is the largest optical drive maker in the world, and that Sony CD-RW drives over 32x are rebadged LiteOns with a different firmware.

 

[modedepe]

Liteons are my favorite for cd drives.

 

[tbates757]

for floppy I like Mitsumi, for CD (RW, DVD), I like Lite-On

 

[HiTek21]

for floppy whatever brand is cheap, for CDRW its Yamaha (Sad cuz there will be no more)

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: Macro2
floppy-Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Teac, toshiba, NEC

CD - most are good because the technology is perfected but why buy a CD-ROM drive, get a DVD Rom drive or a CD-RW drive... Most will say Sony, Teac, TDK, Toshiba, Lite-on even LG...skip BTC, Benq, Aopen, Top-X.

Yeah I would agree with these brand groups too.

Floppy...I think Panasonic are the best...Mitsumi are fine too.

 

[jimmyl930]

I'd go with Lite-on. I don't think the floppy drive brand really matters.