Opinion needed on a Lite-on drive

[MuffD]

I'm thinking of picking up a 16x10x40 Lite-On and was wondering what you all thought of it and is there anything I need to look out for i.e. rebadged drives of some sort and what I should stay away from.

Thanks

 

[bozo1]

I put one in a system I built a few weeks ago for a friend and it worked totally fine for me. Worked just as well as my Plextor 16X.

 

[MuffD]

What software did you use with it?

 

[mztykal]

Hey...Lite-On's are great drives. I've had a few and used a few in customers comps. They work fine with either Nero (which they ship with) and EZ-CD Creator.

No problems with them. Stay away from anything with "Justlink" in it. I went through like 5 TDK 12x10x32x in like 3 days. Couldn't get a single one to burn.

And if they did burn, you'd have to shut the program down, restart the comp, then it would burn a second one without erroring on you.

Go for anything with BurnProof. Since parts are so cheap now, what about a 24x Lite-On?

 

[Electric Amish]

I just bought that one. Seems to work just fine.

amish

 

[Jittos]

I've been using the drive for over a month now, it's been working well. no problem at all. I use it with Nero5

 

[joeld]

Anyone use the Lite-on 16x DVD drive? the LTD-16301 that newegg has for 55

 

[hoihtah]

i have 4 liteon 24x's, 1 liteon 16x coming to me.
i'm using them to burn 600 cd's...
so if i come up successful... without coasters...
then, i'd say that it's trouble free.

i ordered 24x's ... for the speed. and i think they are worth the money.
that 16x, i purchased... only cause it was so cheap. i got the refurb one from newegg for 39.
can't beat that.

it'll all make a nice gift.

 

[hoihtah]

i have the liteon dvd rom coming to me too. 16x. LTD-163
i've red only good things about it.

 

[Tol]

I don't want to scare anyone, because I think it's just bad luck, but my Liteon 16x dvd stopped reading discs a couple days ago...40 days after purchase, so it's gonna be fun for me to RMA it. =( It worked great up until then.

 

[pmark]

I got the 24x speed one and it has been working fine for me until recently. But I think that has more to do with WinXP as it never gave me problems before I upgraded and now my burner and normal cd-rom is randomly giving me problems

 

[hoihtah]

there's a new firm update.
you guys might want to check that out.
check their website.

 

[hominid skull]

The Lite-On 24x10x40 drives can also burn up to 99 minute CDR's, when they become more abundent.