DVD burner recos?

[ken k]

I am building a new system and have enough connectors to install
either a SATA or IDE/PATA drive. I am looking for recommendations for
either single, or possibly dual-sided burners. (If I purchase Blu-
ray, that will be in the future as a second burner). I have a Lite-on
DVD burner at present and I RARELY have made coasters.

Input would be appreciated. Also, is there any advantage to having a
SATA burner? Does the read speed of DVDs ever max out an IDE
connection?

Thanks
KK

 

[bill]

I am building a new system and have enough connectors to install
either a SATA or IDE/PATA drive. I am looking for recommendations for
either single, or possibly dual-sided burners. (If I purchase Blu-
ray, that will be in the future as a second burner). I have a Lite-on
DVD burner at present and I RARELY have made coasters.

Input would be appreciated. Also, is there any advantage to having a
SATA burner? Does the read speed of DVDs ever max out an IDE
connection?

Thanks
KK

I had a Lite-On dvd burner which was noisy and slow which I got rid of and
got a pioneer instead which I'm alot happier with. I also read that asus dvd
burners are good.
If I was upgrading I'd go with a sata2 asus or pioneer dvd burner. I'm
slowly upgrading and recently bought a sata 2 hard drive. I'd also buy a
sata 2 dvd burner if I really
needed a dvd burner. However, ideally I'd wait for the blu-ray drives to
come down in price and become the standard and get one of those instead. One
thing to
consider is that you may experience some problems if your using a ide to
sata2 controller on your old motherboard and may need to buy a new
motherboard which supports sata2.

 

[ken k]

I had a Lite-On dvd burner which was noisy and slow which I got rid of and
got a pioneer instead which I'm alot happier with. I also read that asus dvd
burners are good.
If I was upgrading I'd go with a sata2 asus or pioneer dvd burner. I'm
slowly upgrading and recently bought a sata 2 hard drive. I'd also buy a
sata 2 dvd burner if I really
needed a dvd burner. However, ideally I'd wait for the blu-ray drives to
come down in price and become the standard and get one of those instead. One
thing to
consider is that you may experience some problems if your using a ide to
sata2 controller on your old motherboard and may need to buy a new
motherboard which supports sata2.

Hi. Thanks for the input. In actual fact I am building a new system
around an Intel DP35DP mb, which has 6 SATA 2 connectors (1 is and
external SATA connector) and one IDE connector (2 devices). I figured
I would keep my old Lite-on and add a dual-sided DVD burner (they
aren't very expensive). If/when I am interested in Blu-ray, I can
always replace the older burner. I will look at the Lite-on, Asus,
and Pioneer burners, per both of your recos.

KK

 

[DJT]

Nope! IDE can handle the max read speed of 16x just fine (assuming
the read speed of your burner isn't locked at 4x or some such slow
speed). As for SATA, I do have a Lite-On SATA burner (DH-20A1S) that
tends to do a better job burning DVDs than comparable IDE burners, but
that could just be a fluke in that particular burner.

Larc



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I have the exact oposite.

I had a new computer made with Sata HD & DVD Writer.

It was a lot more particular than the previous DVD drive

I put the DVD Drive from the old PC and it writes without the failures
the the sata drive did

I now have 2 LG drives basicaly the same model in sata & ide configs.

I use the IDE to write and sata to read

DJT

 

[Flasherly]

I am building a new system and have enough connectors to install
either a SATA or IDE/PATA drive. I am looking for recommendations for
either single, or possibly dual-sided burners. (If I purchase Blu-
ray, that will be in the future as a second burner). I have a Lite-on
DVD burner at present and I RARELY have made coasters.

Input would be appreciated. Also, is there any advantage to having a
SATA burner? Does the read speed of DVDs ever max out an IDE
connection?

I don't have much need for out of the norm - dual sides, $15 bluray
discs, basically, just cheap +RW I've used until things change.

SATA - got one of those, a Lite-On, model that doesn't do pictures on
the discs, either. Played hell getting it to work on an older SATA1
ASUS MB - very unstable. Suspect it may take better with a complete
bare OS install, only I'm not into it. Not your Dad's plug & play IDE
burner for me. I ended putting it in another sys, a newer Celeron D
config w/ a dedicated SATA PCI controller (MB's SATA already filled w/
HDs). Works fine, but never have seen anything spectacular -- fastest
speeds I've seen yet are from LG IDE unit I'm getting off a SYBA PCI
dedicated IDE controller.

New MB, I'd favor SATA DVD were I buying unless HD space were
otherwise a consideration.

 

[ken k]

I don't have much need for out of the norm - dual sides, $15 bluray
discs, basically, just cheap +RW I've used until things change.

SATA - got one of those, a Lite-On, model that doesn't do pictures on
the discs, either. Played hell getting it to work on an older SATA1
ASUS MB - very unstable. Suspect it may take better with a complete
bare OS install, only I'm not into it. Not your Dad's plug & play IDE
burner for me. I ended putting it in another sys, a newer Celeron D
config w/ a dedicated SATA PCI controller (MB's SATA already filled w/
HDs). Works fine, but never have seen anything spectacular -- fastest
speeds I've seen yet are from LG IDE unit I'm getting off a SYBA PCI
dedicated IDE controller.

New MB, I'd favor SATA DVD were I buying unless HD space were
otherwise a consideration.

Well, since I have a Lite-on that has worked flawlessly reading and
writing single layer media, I think I will start out by transplanting
it to get my OS install up and running, then play with a Pioneer if I
develop a great need for dual-sided media.

Thanks to all,
Ken K

 

[Flasherly]

Well, since I have a Lite-on that has worked flawlessly reading and
writing single layer media, I think I will start out by transplanting
it to get my OS install up and running, then play with a Pioneer if I
develop a great need for dual-sided media.

I'm running an ASUS K8NE-8 De-ee-lux. Hell'va board, once upon a time.
S-ATA 150 when it was new. Not sure what's up with this new Lite-On
SATA when I plug it in, though. Maybe it's a SATA-2. (Used to run
Lite-On exclusively with CD burners, but switched to NEC 3XXX series
when DVDs "first" came out). Anyway, had two options with the new
Lite-On a) "old" PCI SATA board, or b) "old" MB SATA. Reconsidering,
(wouldn't boot and locked only if on the PCI varient, whereas) I
believe it did work on MB SATA, (*possibly* symptomatic slow booting),
but what did occur and what did kill it for me was unacceptable slow
transfer rates (burning, etc). Was expecting great new advances,
stunning speeds, and other cheap thrills with a new SATA DVD drive,
alas. Nice to see what this Lite-On's capable, maybe next OS install,
next MB, if not that it isn't any faster than IDE burners.