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What are the most & least reliable CD burner brands?

zephyrprime

zephyrprime

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My lite-on is kicking the bucket. It can't burn at full speed anymore and I expect that pretty soon it won't burn at all. Only burned ~50-100 cd's with it also. My old Yamaha burner died in the same way.

So can anyone give me their experiences with various burners?

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The media's fine. It's 48x in 24x burner. The same spool use to work great. What happes is that the drive will burn at full speed but it will be full of errors. I can still burn if I drop down to 16x. I've seen this before and I know it will get worse and worse. It will get more and more errors and it will only burn correctly at lower and lower speeds.
 
maybe its the media?

i have an acer 4x, toshiba 4x, acer 12x, a tdk 16x, Yamaha 44x and a Lite-On 52x... all are still ok. 🙂
 
What do you mean it can't burn at full speed anymore? Does it just take longer to burn, or does your burning software not allow to choose the max speed when you burn cds? If it's the latter, you probably just boughts cds that cant burn that fast.
 
I've owned Lite-On and Philips. The philips died on me, and got replaced by warranty. The Lite-On's... 32x and 52x are both running perfectly right now... maybe you should try updating firmware, that might help, it may not be recognizing the media properly.
 
I still use my TDK VeloCD 12/10/32 CD-RW. Its a rebadged Plextor....
This drive has been flawless and its been through a lot of burns. I'm definitely going to stick to Plextor....
 
Least reliable CDRW is Optorite. I can't find any media that will burn properly at 48X speed or close a cd in a resonable amount of time at 40x🙁. The optorite was in a I/O Magic box from an OfficeMax special.
 
Brand means nothing, designer and manufacturer means everything. The same unit may be sold under several different brands, even by primary manufacturers. I would stick with primary designer/manufacturers that are not just in the business to fill out a product line. That means Hitachi-LG and Samsung.
 
Originally posted by: shadowfaX
i still have my plextor 8x20x. works beautifully and very reliably, even without buffer underrun protection.
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I still have my imation 8x20x scsi, but it has plextor firmware.
Man I was impressed by that thing, aftering being used to a pos Memorex, it was a HOT deal too at the time.
I remember being amazed that I could play quake while burning a cd hehe.
 
What do you mean it can't burn at full speed anymore? Does it just take longer to burn, or does your burning software not allow to choose the max speed when you burn cds? If it's the latter, you probably just boughts cds that cant burn that fast.
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The media's fine. It's 48x in 24x burner. It will burn at full speed but it will be full of errors. I've seen this before and I know it will get worse and worse. It will get more and more errors and it will only burn correctly at lower and lower speeds.
 
I like Lite-On's, they're great burners and they're cheap. Plextor's good too, but expensive. I'd say get another Lite-On even though yours died on you.
 
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