Originally posted by: Gigantopithecus
I burned out a Samsung model I purchased in July of 2003 about 3 months ago. It had burned approximately 5,000 CDrs.
Uhh, so that's 5000 discs in 18 months, or nearly 300 a month. You were averaging 10 discs a day?!? What, were you backing up the world wide web or something
My crappy laptop matshita CDRW has done about 2000 discs so far in the past 30 months. About 1300 discs ago, while burning some video files to CD-R, it started making a loud whine, so I cancelled the burn and popped the drive open, and actually smelled something burning! But it continued to work till this day (till this moment actually, I'm burning an xvid to cd-r), so it seems like many burners last for quite a long time.
I did have a 8x philips burner once that only lasted for 6 months and LESS than 100 discs. What a piece of crap that was.