NEC ND-3550A DVD Burner + 512MB PQI 60X Secure Digital Card $36 SHIPPED UPS 3-Day

[falias]

Newegg has NEC ND-3550A dual layer DVD burner for $29. They also offer a free 512MB 60X PQI Secure Digital card for free. Click on the "Combo Deals" tab to see the combo, and add it to cart. Shipping is $7

 

[gnubea]

Weird. The website says limit 500 per customer. It sounds as if the sale last till July-31 but you cannot buy more than 500 DVD writers unless you have multiple identities. Am I missing something here ? nice deal though. Thanks OP.

 

[OCedHrt]

$39 shipped for me $7.43 shipping *faint*

 

[OCedHrt]

$39 shipped for me $7.43 shipping *faint*

 

[bucd]

just got a new dvd burner but picked up another because of such a good deal.

nice find op

-D

 

[knightc2]

Wow, this seems like a pretty good deal. Any comments on this burner?

 

[nomadh]

Good price but I find the burner cannot do nearly as well as my benq 1655. So far its very media dependant. Including probs with mij sony + and - media and new fuji +/- media. It loves verbatims though. You'd think by now these guys would have the write strategies figured out by now. The benq will burn anything at nearly any speed with a great cdspeed quality score.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Nice. If only that SD card was a MicroSD card.. Oh well.

 

[russw]

Price is holding but the SD card is gone; they're now offering a 24cd wallet.

Nomadh: Are you referring to your personal experience with the NEC or to reviews you've read? You sound like you've got personal experience with your Benq. And from what I've read, the fw is constantly be tweeked by NEC and other fw fans.

 

[funboy6942]

$29 free shippign right now

 

[supastar1568]

i got in the original posted deal.

Now my Cannon A520 holds 416 pictures instead of 13

 

[knightc2]

Combo deal now includes this cd wallet. Adding the cd wallet does incur shipping charges however. Mine were $4.99 so no really a great deal at least on the combo. Burner is still on sale w/free shipping though.

 

[mdcrab]

Deal no longer has secure digital card, only CD wallet and 2 different card readers for additional $.

mdcrab

 

[nomadh]

Originally posted by: russw
Price is holding but the SD card is gone; they're now offering a 24cd wallet.

Nomadh: Are you referring to your personal experience with the NEC or to reviews you've read? You sound like you've got personal experience with your Benq. And from what I've read, the fw is constantly be tweeked by NEC and other fw fans.

Yes these are all ones I've used. I may have "wasted" a dozen disks on the liteon. nearly "wasted" a dozen on the nec 2500. The 2500 did become near kick ass as it became a 2510 then added the fw upgrade by liggy&dee. I retired it but suspect it may still be better than my new nec 3550 at some maybe most media. The 3550 series was semi abandonded because of lawsuit threat of hacking it to the 45xx series. That was months ago and maybe better now but its my work drive so I'm waiting a yr to hack it if i do. But why the hassle. For the same price get a benq. It does on the fly tailored to each individual disk (not just media code) custom burns. It adapts and learns new media codes as it goes as well as adjusts if 1 is perticularly bad or good. It does in hardware what custom hackers dig at for months. I will get 1/10th the p1 failures total and 20-50% of the maximum spike on my benq. Same for P1 errors.
Heres a benq magic trick. I have old 2.4x speed phillips/ricoh media. It burns at 12-16x in my benq and comes out with a quality score around 97%.
I feel like a drooling fanboy and maybe the other mfgs are catching up to benq in write quality but I wasn't impressed with this new nec or the new samsung. and others say the new benq dq60/pioneer chipset dvd-ram drive isn't like the 15xx 16xx benqs (phillips chipset?)
I just want to know that all the time I wasted getting just a decent, not perfect burn, wasn't wasted on just me. I just don't worry about media much anymore at home but I can only reliably use verbatim at work on the nec.
The one exception is AML002 +r media. Its cheap as hell made in china. I don't know if it will last like verbatim but the burns are similar.
Good luck whatever you do but just think how much time you waste every time you have a marginal burn or how bad it is you don't notice.

 

[dandragonrage]

benq for the win

 

[jackschmittusa]

I've got the BenQ 1655 and an NEC 3540a (supposed to be the same as the 3550, except not lead free). Usually use my Nec to burn. Never found a disk it didn't like so far. Have used Verbatim, Fuji, Memorex, Imation, and store brands (i.e. Staples) for dvd, and uncountable cd brands. Data cds and dvds work in other computers, and movie dvds work in 4 different settop boxes I've tried.

 

[nomadh]

Nec over the 1655???? So I guess the question comes down to which of us got the killer unit or who got the dud? This is the prob with using personal experience. Going by most others in the boards seem to line up with the benq I think. One thing is how many clamor for new or hacked firmware for the necs. I know my older 2500 nec was near worthless until liggyand dee. I don't see the same emphasis on getting new firmware for the benqs because it self adapts so well. You mention fuji. My 3550 hates fuji +r and -r. (Prodisc and some other code) But Verbatim works in everything I've tried. Even the btc does well with it. We have another 3550 here but it doesn't get the use. MAybe I'll try it out some.

 

[deeznuts]

Yes, NEC over the 1655 for me too. I've only had one Benq 1655, but about 7 or 8 NEC's, from the 2510A and beyond. The BenQ I got is very picky with media, and I've tried all the firmwares. It sits on my desk now, not sure what to do with it, as I don't want to trash it, but probably can't even sell it for much to make it worth getting off my ass and shipping it.

The NEC's I've had, all of them, has never ever met media it did not like, and I've never even flashed the firmware on them, bone stock with shipping firmware.

Another note, because of my problems with my benq, I went perusing all the usual sites for firmwares, and everyone is complaining about the newer firmware writing strategies sucking for the Benq, and speculation this will continue ever since LiteOn purchased them or whatever.

I'm sticking with NEC until I get burnt.

 

[russw]

Combo deal back on but shipping is 3-day $4.99 for me with CA tax totalling just over $36

 

[esquared]

Shows up as free shipping for me. I swear Newegg's prices change at different times of the day. Pretty nice deal. I am thinking of it and don't even need another NEC 3550.

 

[nomadh]

Originally posted by: deeznuts
Yes, NEC over the 1655 for me too. I've only had one Benq 1655, but about 7 or 8 NEC's, from the 2510A and beyond. The BenQ I got is very picky with media, and I've tried all the firmwares. It sits on my desk now, not sure what to do with it, as I don't want to trash it, but probably can't even sell it for much to make it worth getting off my ass and shipping it.

The NEC's I've had, all of them, has never ever met media it did not like, and I've never even flashed the firmware on them, bone stock with shipping firmware.

Another note, because of my problems with my benq, I went perusing all the usual sites for firmwares, and everyone is complaining about the newer firmware writing strategies sucking for the Benq, and speculation this will continue ever since LiteOn purchased them or whatever.

I'm sticking with NEC until I get burnt.

Dude you are totally messing with my life perspective here I am really suprised when the boards are so filled with people looking for hacked nec firmware because it tends to be so weak out the door. I need to look into new 3550 firmware. I haven't in 3-4 months. I may also select a few of each media again and see what happens on the nec. Bottom line for me is that the best the competition could do is match my benq. They couldn't possibly beat it it seems.