What DVD-Rom Is The Best?? and OEM vs Retail???

[BChico]

What kind should i get, i need eide, so no scsi, i saw the pioneer 16/40 is that good, what do you all think?

 

[Wuming]

toshiba 12x is good. pioneer's as well.

 

[NoreagaCNN]

Toshiba or Pioneer 12/40. The 16/40 are pretty loud and the extra 4x doesnt really do much for movies. It'll only make a difference for data but not by much.

-Nore

 

[Taz4158]

Pioneer is what I run.

 

[BChico]

How is the pioneer 16x, then?

 

[BChico]

What is the difference between, dvd-115 and dvd-116?

 

[thorin]

I have a AOpen DVD114 (or 104) which is a remarked Pioneer 10x/40x, it's great.

Thorin

 

[Taz4158]

Works really well here. Had a Hitachi 10X before and frankly there's not a whole lot of difference.

 

[bolomite]

Toshiba 12x.

 

[BChico]

I was looking at a harddrive, ibm dekstar 45gb, is there any problem buying one of these oem for 150, rather than 230 for retail, does oem just mean its not in a retail box?

 

[dcdomain]

I have the Toshiba, extremely satisfied with it...

 

[BChico]

Anyone know about the oem vs retail?

 

[thorin]

IMHO don't bother going with retail, save th extra money for your next upgrade. DVDROMs (even the OEM ones) in my expereince always come with a drivers disc and some type of Software DVD player.

Thorin

 

[fishingeek]

I have the Toshiba 1502 and it works great!

 

[CQuinn]

I bought an NEC DVD drive from an OEM vendor and later noticed that
some of the front panel controls are missing from this drive.
And it seems to get lost on IDE detection after a warm boot.

Other than that it seems like a fine drive.

 

[josphstalinator]

oem usually means no warranty (or very short)

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Just go with oem they are cheaper and the same(usually)

 

[jagr10]

I recommend the Creative 12x DVD. Comes with nice software and works great with dolby digital parts.

 

[BChico]

Thanks for the input so if you had to pick, Pioneer, Creative, or Toshiba?

 

[JackBurton]

If it is a DVD drive I ONLY use Pioneers! I LOVE these things! I've got a 10X and 2 16X drives. They are GREAT!

 

[Kevinjm]

I got a hot little pioneer in mine... good stuff.. never had trouble with it..

 

[airfoil]

Get the 16x slot load Pioneer & buy it OEM. As for the IBM 45 gig drive, go OEM. You will only miss out on the installation software, which you can download from here anyway.

 

[BChico]

What do you need installation software for, i got 2 30gb deskstars, and i got the 16x slot pioneer...

 

[NuovoTech]

Is the Pioneer 10x(DVD114) very quiet?

 

[Basse]

You should also take into consideration if its region locked or not and if locked, check to see if there is a firmware that fixes it. All of the drives mentioned herein are probably region free, I haven't checked.

The Firmware Page

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