Recommend Silver faced DVD-ROM please

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I have a silver faceplate on my DVD/CD writer, which matches my computer
nicely. Looking for a recommendation for a DVD-ROM with silver faceplate
option, thx.
 
jeffc said:
I have a silver faceplate on my DVD/CD writer, which matches my computer
nicely. Looking for a recommendation for a DVD-ROM with silver faceplate
option, thx.
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Pioneer DVR-109XL Dual Layer ReWriter - Limited Edition

(From overclockers UK)
 
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Pioneer DVR-109XL Dual Layer ReWriter - Limited Edition

(From overclockers UK)
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Wait a moment, it's a DVD-ROM you want. You've got a DVD writer, but
want a DVD-ROM too. Why? The DVD writer can read DVD's. There's
virtually no point in having multiple DVD drives. If you want another
it could be best to just get another DVD writer because they don't cost
much now.
 
Wait a moment, it's a DVD-ROM you want. You've got a DVD writer, but
want a DVD-ROM too. Why?
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Extend the life of the writer which costs four times the cost of a
DVDRW. Also he nmay want to do disc to disc which is a PITA with a
single drive.
 
Conor said:
Extend the life of the writer which costs four times the cost of a
DVDRW. Also he nmay want to do disc to disc which is a PITA with a
single drive.
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Of course, mostly CD to CD (mostly copying photos to CD and making "best of"
music CDs).
 
Conor said:
Extend the life of the writer which costs four times the cost of a
DVDRW.
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To be honest the cost is negligible. A DVD-ROM costs virtually
nothing, and a writer costs roughly 4 times nothing. The particular
DVD-RW drive I looked at was less than £40, and it'll be comming down.
The DVD drive is also VERY unlikely to die. It'll probably last a
good few years with LOADS of heavy usage, and by that time (if they're
still around) you'll be able to get a better one for about half the
current price.

Soon something breaks, the sooner you can upgrade it ;-)
Also he nmay want to do disc to disc which is a PITA with a
single drive.
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I suppose so, but I never do that. I have a DVD-ROM, and DVD-writer,
but I never do disc to disc. These days it probably isn't much of a
problem though. Having said that I did a backup of my data a few days
ago, and the disc keeps giving me CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors
now. It was quite fortunate that I had also backed it up onto another
machine!
 
Because DVD-writers are very slow/bad at reading discs, usually limited
to 2x (maybe 4x) speed in the hardware. Makes backing up DVD's much
more time consuming waiting 25 min. for the writer to rip the image. A
cd/dvd-rom combo is much faster. Doesn't sound like you use yours for
much so in your case in wouldn't matter...

and AFAIK the Sony drives have a little silver in their faceplates.
 
Because DVD-writers are very slow/bad at reading discs, usually limited
to 2x (maybe 4x) speed in the hardware. Makes backing up DVD's much
more time consuming waiting 25 min. for the writer to rip the image. A
cd/dvd-rom combo is much faster. Doesn't sound like you use yours for
much so in your case in wouldn't matter...

and AFAIK the Sony drives have a little silver in their faceplates.
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Oh, my DVD-Writer does exactly the same read speeds as my DVD-ROM, so
the speeds should be similar. It does 16x48x reading IIRC, which is
more than enough.

They only disadvantage (which is very minor anyway) is that my writer
doesn't seem to have digital audio. My drives are both LG, and on the
writer it says reservered by the digital audio connector, so I'm
guessing that they didn't implement it?
 
Oh, my DVD-Writer does exactly the same read speeds as my DVD-ROM, so
the speeds should be similar. It does 16x48x reading IIRC, which is
more than enough.

They only disadvantage (which is very minor anyway) is that my writer
doesn't seem to have digital audio. My drives are both LG, and on the
writer it says reservered by the digital audio connector, so I'm
guessing that they didn't implement it?
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I've got a Sony writer and a lite-on, the lite on combo drive
(dvd-rom/cd-rw) is definitely faster at ripping than the Sony. Guess it
depends huh?
 
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