DVD burners

[Weasel]

I've would like to get a DVD butner for my relic of a computer. Right now I have a Cd burner that maxes out at 4x maybe 8x burn speed. And the DVD player that came with my relic has long past gone to where crappy drives go, so I'm looking at getting a new drive that will burn DVD's and CD's(faster then the one I have). So I've looked at several drives but theres a small problem with the drivers I looked at, none of the BENQ, Pioneer, NEC seem to support the Mount Rainer format. Now this wouldn't be a problem except all of the computers at school use this format so I need the drive to be compatible with it. The ones I have found seem to be older models, so any suggestion or am I out of luck?

 

[87manche]

liteon.
For the money it's the best optical drive you can find. You can even get a lightscribe one. AFAIK all the liteon drives support mt. rainier.

 

[87manche]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827106003
there's a liteon DVD-burner for $40 until tomorrow.

 

[Bohican]

x2 on the liteon, I've got one and had no problems with it. From all the reviews/ product comparisons I've read, they perform almost as well (occasionally better than) the most expen$ive plextors.

 

[Starscream]

x2 on the liteon, I've got one and had no problems with it. From all the reviews/ product comparisons I've read, they perform almost as well (occasionally better than) the most expen$ive plextors.

x3

My vote goes to LiteOn.

 

[casm]

Another vote for LiteOn. Bought one about four weeks ago and it's kicking ass all over the Sony unit it replaced. Dirt cheap, too.

 

[Weasel]

ok, well I'll give it a try.

 

[Yucca-Man]

How fast is your computer? What OS? You may hate it or end up burning a lot of blanks if the computer is so old that it had a 4x CD-R

Jim

 

[Jeffro600]

X-whatever on the liteon

I have two...an internal on my desktop and an external for my laptop. Both have worked flawlessly since the day i bought them. For the price, their the best deal in DVD burners out there.

 

[RichP]

All round best one I've owned is an iomega dvd +-rw ram drive. Does a solaris CD ISO image in 4 minutes.

 

[Weasel]

AMD 800mhz, 512 ram. Who makes iomega drives? I could probably get that one localy, as they usually don't stock lite-on ect.

 

[RichP]

AMD 800mhz, 512 ram. Who makes iomega drives? I could probably get that one localy, as they usually don't stock lite-on ect.

Iomega, the same people who make zip drives. Liteon, LG and some others have always been 'builders' drives, cheap, generally last for the warranty period and come in OEM packaging by the case and one cd driver disc that you make copies off for the customer. I don't use them.
Sony is so-so, they seem to be more sensitive to dirt, Plextors are good drives, expensive but they have a semi-high failure rate and a good warranty [1 year unquestioned].
I use alot of Pioneer and Iomega in my builds but then I have not built or shipped a system without a dvd burner in over 3 years and when customers bring in boxes with bad cd rom drives whether just a reader or cd burner they leave with a DVD burner, Pioneer if the box is black and Iomega if it's tan.

Go to www.pricewatch.com and search.