Questions about Pioneer DVD-105S

[SaturnX]

Hello,
Well I'm looking to buy a DVD drive, and well the Pioneer 105S (16x) looks interesting, though from what I've seen on the forum, people are saying that the pioneer slot drives are known the fail, I'm just wondering do any of you have any suggestions for other drives, or comments on the above drive? If anyone has one, what are your experiences with it?

Thanks
--Mark

 

[Shagga]

Most ppl in this forum rave about the Pioneer DVD drives. I rate them personally and if I'm honest I have yet to see any1 metion that they are prone to fail either.

 

[BigToque]

I have the 104s drive (10x Slot Load)

Its an awesome drive! I haven't had any problems in the year that I've had it. I would definitely recomend Pioneer as one of the best DVD-ROM drive makers on the market.

Toshiba also makes excellent DVD drives too.

 

[Vegito]

If anything fails it would be their earlier slot drives. I have 3 pioneer 36x slot scsi cdrom which are almost 3 years old.. still running strong. Not 1 failed yet. I also have 2 of the pioneer 40x scsi but not sloted which are about 1.5 year old, not failing anytime yet.

Overall, my experience with pioneer is great. I haven't upgraded to dvd yet but if I do it would be a pioneer slot dvd.

 

[SaturnX]

Excellent sounds like a good drive, but does anyone else have any opinions?

--Mark

 

[Insane3D]

Mine works great, no problems at all on my 105S.

 

[SpeedGod]

i would have to go against the pioneer drive. I have a 103s and it has failed on me. the problem is that the motor is too weak and after long periods of time, the motor dies out and can't spin the cd anymore for the lens to read it.

=(

 

[Maverick]

I've got one and have had no problems except my drive has some problems running movies with DMA enabled. This could just be my IRQ 9 shared across 3 devices (working on fixing that) slowing everything down. You probably won't have that problem.

One thing you may not know is that this drive is LOUD. People across the room will know when you're loading something up with it. This may not be a concern for you, its certainly not one for me, but I know there are some people who like to have their computers really quiet. If loudness is an issue, I hear the Toshiba 12X drives are not too loud and have good performance.

 

[Vegito]

If you had 1 drive and it failed, it could be a bad batch. I had several nec cdrom and 1 fail, I dont call the whole nec line of cdrom bad product. Even if 1 of my pioneer drive failed, I wouldn't call it crap. I had 2 micron sdram failed, I don't call them crap. Mechanical stuff fail after a while. Wether it's 1 year or 5 years, theres a MTBF and it should be warranted.

I have 10+ quantum drives failed, 3 maxtor, 4 wd and 1 seagate. I don't call them crap, except quantum whom mostly failed during the first 10 month. And I own about 35 quantum scsi u160 drives so they aren't the cheap ide that failed, they're the expensive 5 year waranty that failed. So if 10 out of 35 failed, they're pretty much crap. If 1 out of 2 failed, then it's a different story.

I had 2 of the 3 maxtor that failed was new 40gb that failed during the first 2 month. my wd were 200megger that's been around since 93 that finally died and same with seagate.

Anything mechnaical is prone to fail. But having 1 drive failed doesn't mean the whole line is crap.

 

[shawn_16]

my pioneer (tray load)113 failed on me a few days ago