Tis true - LiteOn CDRW rocks

mooseAndSquirrel

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After reading so many people rave about the LiteOn drives, I got one. The ironic thing is I'm planning on moving my HP9000i CDRW/DVD reader combo out into my new system, so I wanted a CDRW to keep in my old system (which I'll pass on to one of my kids). Now I'm thinking of keeping it :D. I can burn things so much faster with this bad boy - a whole MP3 CD backup of 740MB takes a little more than 3 minutes!

So thanks for all the advice and recommendations.
 

mooseAndSquirrel

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Putting 700 MB ona a 750CD. It's Roxio EZCD Creator (which everyone but me seems to hate) and a "data CD project" of MP3 files. Total time to burn plus TOC and closing the session: 3 minutes 18 seconds.
 

mooseAndSquirrel

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<< 750 cd?

maybe i should get me some 24x certified media :) ah well
>>



OK, so it was 700MB/80Min; but I can tell time better than type, and the creation of the disc was under 3 1/2 minutes.
 

kjacobs

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My 16x10x40 LiteOn does an audio CD in a little over 4 minutes! I thought the completion dialog was an error, it came up so fast!

I'll be burning CDs over the holidays for sure!

Ken
 

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Even though my Lite-On 16x10x40 came with Nero I switched to CD Creator 5 about a month after I got the burner and refuse to go back to Nero! The difference is like night and day! Nero would take forever to open up and I burned more than my fair share of coasters with it too. Sometimes it didn't matter how much I slowed down the record speed. Ever since I switched to CD Creator no problems and NO COASTERS! :);):D
 

Dan

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I upgraded to a Lite-On 24x/10x/40x a couple of weeks ago and I'm thoroughly impressed with it's performance. :D
 

Ryukumu

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This morning as I opened Christmas presents, as a very pleasent surprise I found that one of my presents was the 24/10/40 burner. After reading of a couple of horror stories on this messageboard, I was kind of nervous installing this thing, but it's worked perfectly, without a hitch! Really quick too. ^_^

...well, okay, there was this ONE BSOD from right after I initially installed the Nero software, but I've rebooted the machine several times and it hasn't come up again. I'm factoring the BSOD as a 'fluke'. :eek:
 

CaptianScooby

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Hi
Im planning to build a new PC and i have a TDK CDRW right now and want to know if I should buy another or a LiteOn?
 

techwanabe

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kjacobs,

What CD's do you use on your LiteOn 16x10x40x to back up music CD's? I've had two music CD copies have problems in latter tracks - I believe both were TDK blank CDs and copied at 16x full speed. One couldn't the last several tracks and the last track you could advance to was in the middle of a sone. The other CD had 27 classical tracks and the last one had skips and dead spots in it.

Is it that there are some brands of CD blanks which don't work as well in this model?
 

Tates

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I picked up a Lite-On 2410B2 from Newegg.com for $87.00 shipped. Ordered it 12/20, received it 12/24 :D.

Build date was 12/01 with the most recent firmware. Reads CDs my Plexwriter 161040A choked on.

Best CDRW I've ever owned. Awesome, just plain awesome.
 

anime

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yeah--not just the cdr-w..the DVD-ROM player is also awesome. It rips stuffs better than my toshiba dvd drive. Handle audio/video ripping piece of cake.
 

Darkhawk28

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I initially had a problem with the tray staying open all the time, but after I figured out the problem, I've found that this thing (24x10x40) absolutely rocks. 440MB audio cd copies in about 2 minutes 30 seconds. Not bad. :D
 

Thump553

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I burn a lot of CDs-have an antique HP at work (no choice) and a Plextor 8x at home, which I bought when Plextor was king.

Since then I have built two systems for my out-of-home kids, put lite-on in each (16x and 24x) and both are great. Quiet, burn everything and low priced. Probably won't bother buying Plextor again when mine dies.
 

StandardCell

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<< Probably won't bother buying Plextor again when mine dies. >>



FYI, the Ultraplex SCSI CD-ROM readers are STILL the only CD-ROMs in the world that can do flawless digital audio extraction (i.e. no pops/clicks from the extraction process on a CD not related to scratches). They have a special way of not hiccuping that is described somewhere in the bowels of their website. I will admit, Lite-On makes decent drives NOW.
 

cuteybunny

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:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
:Dslower burn is better, deeper burn which takes:D
:Dme at least 20min to do at 4x:D:D:D:D:D:D
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

I dunno if it my cheap media or cdwriter that is cause of bad burn for anything faster then 4x.
 

breweyez

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i have 24x lite-on...it is great. I use nero5.5 with no problems and clonecd when I need it. I highly recomend lite-on.
 

SOHCC

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I have the Liteon 24x. Ever since I upgraded to the latest firmware (5S54), the max I could burn is 20x. I am using Nero 5.5.5.1 with Win XP. Anybody seeing the same thing ?