Best dvd drive suggestion out of experience needed

[blister]

i need your suggestions about buying dvd writer by experience based on the following


please mention the company or model u prefer

1.long lived drive (importantly)

2.best writing perfomance

3.Reading ability of scratched cd


as it is going to be my third drive in last two years i want mainly long livable drive


Please pour in your reviews of your model that u recommend or links to it



Lets all say about our highest spanned drives and their brands here before reviewing or telling about your best drive.



thank you

[ravi_9793]

wrong section mate.......
U sud post in hardware troubleshooting.....
Although I think SONY is good choise.I am using for last 3 yr with no problem

[blister]

i need to tell you sony was one of my short lived drives among the dead although it is not a solution,let see what all others say about their reviews





correction ravi brother it is not to shoot the trouble ,it is about general review about dvd writers by user experience

[krates]

try lite-on digit always recommend this and it is cheap too

[ico]

+1 for LiteON DVD writer

[praka123]

-1 for sony and liteon try latest samsung octoedge dvd writers!they are very much better,even tray problem also disappeared.a good experiance for me!

[ico]

^ we had one in our school and it isn't that great too. it stopped working in 3 weeks. So, -1 for Samsung

[utsav]

@ praka123 how can u say that.i owned a samsung octoedge and it sucks.it never wrote at 16x nor even at 8x .always the speed dropped to 4x on costly media also and so noisy i cant say abt it.get asus drives with sata.it rocks and these drives r the best out there money can buy and very silent too

[praka123]

^so...it is my experiance with octoedge(updated to latest firmware) that it is stable and can write at 16x speed.there is no noice at all!.I am thanking for my buy of octoedge rather than the trio(liteon-benq-sony).

[ico]

I haven't found anyone who has got bad experiences with LiteON yet.

[SunnyChahal]

Originally Posted by gagandeep

I haven't found anyone who has got bad experiences with LiteON yet.

LITE-ON ,the best u can get.
im using it and im more than happy with it.

[ico]

^^ +1 for LiteON again.......

[blister]

Sony to my experience, it performed well but failed in its validity(short lived)

@utsav
i think it is praka123 s experienced his best with samsung,it is his experience anyway.......thanks for expressing your bitter experience with samsung,i want know is that new octo edge samsung drives .


@gagandeep
actually when i assembled a pc for my friend i used liteon, on the very first day i was disappointed when i inserted the motherbord cd for drivers insatallation ,the drive did not detect the motherboard cd .i found all other cd s running but the motherboard cd did not which was detected on the other drives .
But let us wait what other experienced with liteon ............,

asus sata i have personally experienced better writing perfomance and readability.....but any experience about its life


Then what about lg, my friends circle say it has better life but i am not sure about its perfomance

any comments and experience on lg.......

Is plextor available in india? becoz plextor have many extra features!!! ya it has ....

Main criteria here is

1.long lived drives

2.Reading ability


And bring down perfomance as third priority (in case of drives) or all together
what say?

Lets all say about our highest spanned drives and their brands here before reviewing that.........

[praka123]

it is my experiance.i have seen failed sony oem dvd writers.even i hated samsung drives esp from my first drive in 2000 or so,the tray problem etc.
but this octoedge writer is very stable and produces nice copies and reads dual layer DVD's from digit which these trios(sony-benq-liteon) failed to read for many users

[blister]

yah as u said sony is not upto the mark or worst in dvd drives according to me

i think we can expect many to witness this

[utsav]

@praka123 yes,i agree to the point that samsung reads all disks.i am having the same experience with asus.

sony drives hav a lot of problem reading disks

[ico]

@blister
If you don't want to get LiteON, then I'll definitely suggest you to go for ASUS.

[kpmsivachand]

Sony is good choice... but samsung is also good choice and comparetively samsung is less price....

[Ankur Gupta]

I have had bad experiences with both my Samsung CD writer and DVD-ROM so I would not be too inclined to buy their new Octoedge DVD writer even though it seems pretty attractive.

My uncle has a Sony DVD-writer and it takes 30-40 mins to full erase a DVD

I have hardly seen any bad reviews about Lite-On drives so that would be my best bet.

ASUS drives are definitely better it terms of quality but are expensive.

My suggestion: If you can shell out extra then buy a ASUS drive else go for Lite-On.

[nach p]

I bought Sony a yr back n now even I dont trust these sony dvd writers.
Even replaced sony dvd writer started suckin my dvds.

so one more -1 for Sony.

Maybe I will prefer Liteon Or Asus.
Confused for octoedge as a one of choice

[ico]

I have also had bad experience with Sony (CD Writer) btw.

[praka123]

i have no experiance with asus dvd drives.seems,it will be better as the comments say atleast in India.
yeah,we have no option for pioneer or plextor make drives even their prices are on the high side.

[SunnyChahal]

I had worst experience with sony.OK experience with Samsung but best one with lite on.
lite on rox.
BTW i have all 3 installed in my pc.

[Ankur Gupta]

Yes Plextor drives are best ones available...sadly we don't have access to them in India..

[zyberboy]

i hav samsung cd writer 5 yrs old still good but hav tray problem.
Now i hav LG dvd writer seems vry good,it can read dvd's which sony failed to do, writing speed is good even in DVD-Re Writable,but cant say abt its long term performance since its only 2 months old.(price 1400/-) and also its not SATA.

[ico]

LG is may be good but LiteON and Asus are surely better.

[titana]

had good experience with liteon in the past...now also using benq
both are great

[utsav]

Lg drives look cheapo but they hav good writing speeds .they burn disks at the medias rated speed which samsung fails to do mostly and also lg drives can do overspeed burning on 10x rated cd-rw at 12x speed.but asus is a better option due to its sturdyness

Lite-on drives are good. My 3 year old combo still works charm. But SONY drives are the worst of the lot. My sony dvd writer fails to detect many dvds and some of the cds are also detected to be corrupt but they work perfectly on the lite-on drives.

So +1 for lite-on and -1 for sony

[praka123]

LG DVD ROM drive failed for me twice after getting replacements for the second time,i sold it to a local hardware guy and brought samsung octoedge dvd writer.on consulting with many assemblers and wholesalers,I felt they want to sell samsung drives as they are more reliable except so called tray problem,LG(not available here now!),benq,sony and liteon are having critical failures most of the time while samsung-toshiba dvd drives are mostly working well,few cases infact very rare replacements!.times are changing,no need to follow the trio's saying they're all liteon made drives and are good.yeah!

yeah,i forgot asus,is it available easily all over india?