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Lite-On any good?

whats the real gain for you? burnproof? Like to burn 10x rw?

I would hang onto what you got and if you got the itch to upgrade spend money on some other areas to increase speeds in pc's.

soon (maybe a year) dvd-rw may be here and maybe able to burn cds as well...10x burn now is pretty fast anyways...
 
Naw I know HP aint the best in the world and was maybe thinking Lite-On might be a better brand or maybe the same. I ain't never heard of them.
 
Never used a Lite-On burner, but I've used a bunch of their cd rom drives. Nothing special, nothing bad either though. They're solid, and pretty good bang for the buck, imho.
 
I've had several burners but my latest is a Pacific Digital Turbowriter I got for $99 at SamsClub it's a Lite-on in disguise... 12X10X32 and it has the real Sanyo burnproof! they have another model 16X10X40 which is a Yamaha in disguise and DOES not have the Sanyo Burnproof technology found on the Lite-on, TDK, Iomega, and Plextor... It basically has a large 8mb buffer that's supposed to prevent buffer underruns but you're not supposed to do other things while it's burning a CD... The Lite-on has a 2mb buffer with Burnproof and it works great... burns at 12X all the time...perfectly... As soon as the buffer gets low it stops and waits for the buffer to fill and starts again... If you are copying from a fast CD-rom or the hard drive whole CDs burn in 5 minutes. I was skeptical at first with the lite-on but it works flawlessly... My only complaint is the tray, it's on the cheap drive side, but the drive's function is flawless so far... hope that helps
 
Rock solid is the aopen 1232a (12x10x32x) at newegg for 100buck shipped free...it is full retail bundle with nero, norton ghost, cables and discs...much better deal and aopen has a reputation of higher quality drives of all sort...
 
I haven't used any Lite-on drives, but I've installed and sold hundreds of HP burners in the last two years and have only had two defective drives. I'd have to say that HP drives have been the best I've ever dealt with.


Just my .02
 
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