Please Recommend a Cd-rw

jealous57 · Post by **jealous57** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 5:28 am

I'd go with a Yamaha F1 (scsi if ya have the connection) Although the lite-on is also a great drive. The F1 has the fastest re-write though (If you can find the media)

Magexx9 · Post by **Magexx9** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 7:52 am

Looks as if Lite-on is the ticket. Can you reccommend any places to buy a really nice one from? I haven't bought anything in I don't know how long so I have no idea where to start.

Mage

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 12:40 pm

Try http://www.newegg.com

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 12:37 am

I'd say go Lite-on also. And watch for REBATES!
I just picked up a 48x12x48x Buslink (identified as lite-on durring boot) for $106 including tax from Bestbuy a few weeks ago. After 2 mail in rebates this drive costs about $55 plus the sales tax I paid on it.

New Egg and TCWO.com both carry lite-ons also.

I had some old Memorex 8x disks and unmarked circuit city disks, plus I bought a spindle of 40x TDK at wallmart.
Burned about 20 disks or more so far with mine. Backing up all my manufactors install disks plus other data!
Great speed and auto senceing the media speed is nice too. Been burning 8x disks at over 16x, Cheap ciruit city disks at 24x-32x and TDK 40x at 48X! This drive came with Nero which I like alot. The buffer underrun prevention is great and saved my disks a couple times at the highest speeds! I seem to have a slight bottle neck on this system and my ATA133 hard drive seems to be reported as a ATA66 by some software although Post shows it as a ATA133. It may not be transfering fast as it should!

About half way through burning a full disk my buffer empties and looks like I'll crash out, but the drive slows, the buffer fills up and all is fine, disk is saved! I haven't made a coaster yet with this lite-on 48x!
I have been recording mostly data and all the disks seem to be perfect. I have not ripped any MP3's or burned any using this drive yet. I did read in the nero Help why some of my other disks I burned on the other recorders had pops and scratch sounds sometimes.

I have had Memorex and Sony burners, they're ok, but I give the Lite-on an A+ so far, and it is both the fastest and cheapest drive I could find, even without a rebate if bought online at places like TCWO.

I have a 16x DVD Lite-on drive I am happy with also, so I was looking for a Lite-on burner to try when I found this one.
Plan to buy another before long to replace my Sony 12x in another system!

Post by **sbp** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 4:08 pm

Another Lite-on recommendation here.

BTW the last couple of TDK CD-RW's have been repackaged Lite-on's.

matt719 · Post by **matt719** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 4:24 pm

I've had my HP CD-RW for almost 2 years now. It's 8x4x32, which is as fast as i need. It's always worked grwat, i've never had any problem with it. With this speed i burn a full 700-800MB disk in about 8-9 minutes. Although this speed is outdated, i'm sure you can get a new one with a higher speed.

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 4:33 pm

ill cast a vote for cyberdrive. i got a 16/12/40 for 50 dollars and cant complain. made abot 100 disk so far. it has exactlink (burnproof) burns in 5 min or less. much better than the 4x i had b4

raz · Post by **raz** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 4:04 pm

Just a FWIW...

just received my 40/12/48 LiteOn I ordered from Dell a few days ago. 10% off all drives plus I used a $5 off coupon, plus free shipping over $25. Total = $42.66!