Who makes the best CDRW that can read "bad" CDs?

[StormRider]

By bad I mean scratched and/or dirty.

 

[StormRider]

No one knows? It seems everyone is judging CDRWs by how fast they write but I'm also interested in the ones that can read a bad CD in order to make a copy of it.

 

[neovan]

Plextors and LiteOns are pretty good

 

[LordRaiden]

Use a DVD drive. The drives are designed to "see past" corruption and anti-copying methods impossed on the disks, so I don't see where they'd have issues reading a damaged CD disk.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
Use a DVD drive. The drives are designed to "see past" corruption and anti-copying methods impossed on the disks, so I don't see where they'd have issues reading a damaged CD disk.

Hmm. I've got a disc with a few "dead sectors". Maybe a quick stint in the freezer followed up by some ISOBuster lovin' would do the trick. 🙂

- M4H

 

[human2k]

Originally posted by: neovan
Plextors and LiteOns are pretty good

 

[LordRaiden]

Plextors RULE! I've got an old 12/10/32 that's burned well over 3000 CD's (all backups and data storage. I'm paranoid about loosing data) in the 2+ years I've had it and it shows no signs of slowing down. Awesome drive. 🙂 When this one finally dies, I'm definately gonna buy another one.

 

[KC5AV]

A friend of mine had an old TEAC 4x4 (4x drive that would hold 4 discs), and that thing would read just about anything. It was amazing.

 

[numark]

I've had some luck with my Yamaha 24x. Of course, YMMV.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

meh, just stick to higher quality drives. i always use LiteOns and I've never had a problem

YMMV

 

[stonecold3169]

If you scope out reviews, it almost always seems like lite-ons come in pretty badly as far as being able to read scratched cds. However, they usually can read low quality media better. For what you're looking for, I believe TDK would be the way to go, or Yamaha

 

[Siddhartha]

I remember reading that the Yamaha F-1 was good at this.

 

[AznMaverick]

my memorex 2x2x16 would read anything and everything.

 

[txxxx]

CDRinfo.com do bad CD test's on CDRW drives.

 

[yellowperil]

What? No double-entendre thread title about inserting dirty objects?

I've had the best luck with Toshiba, Yamaha, and Plextor drives.