polemicz Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 A DVD drive stopped working on a system and I need to replace it, possibly with a DVD burner. I'd be interested in recommendations for good drives that work well with Linux. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 (edited) I have a Samsung TS-H552-U, cost $39 six months or so ago. It's an EIDE Internal drive, double layer DVD-RW. Works great with K3B. Never had a bad burn. I really like it. Link: http://samsung.com/Products/OpticalDiskDri...RW_TS_H552U.htm Newer models are now available since I bought mine: http://samsung.com/Products/OpticalDiskDri...ables/index.htm I highly recommend that you get a DVD Writer and not just a Reader. The prices are so low these days for DVD Writers, it'd be a shame not to get one. Edited February 1, 2006 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Here's a very nice one on sale at new egg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827152059 and one for a similar price, considering free second day shipping, from zip zoom fly: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ductCode=172512 I have the NEC 3540 and am very pleased with it. Both those drives are bare drives, i.e. no cables or software are included, just the drive itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Both Pioneer and LG are true quality brands. Extremely reliable. Both have dual layer burning. For the miniscule extra money, get a dual layer machine. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 (edited) NEC makes the best DVD burners ATM. A good informative site for burners is CDFreaks. There they praise mostly the last NEC and BenQ drives. In general any fully MMC-3 compatible atapi burner should work under Linux fairly well... avoid SATA devices, some strange external ones and Plextors (their firmware has some extras, not to be found in other burners, but at the cost of full MMC-3 compatibility, it seems). Edited February 1, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I got one of these Pioneer dvd writers for Christmas. It's very good, works fine under 2006, and can burn at 8x with no coasters (I've had a couple of bad burns at 16x, which is the advertised max speed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 In checking the NEC burners on Newegg and Tigerdirect there are OEM and Retail versions. Aside from a pretty box to throw out is there any reason to buy a Retail version instead of OEM (about $8 extra)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 The retail normally just means you get the nice pretty box, etc, etc. I've always bought OEM LG drives, and had no problems with them. They come in a brown box, but you still get the manual, CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 The oem version does not come with the ribbon cable or the cd burning software you would normally get with the retail version. That and the price are the only differences. I'd recommend using new egg or zip zoom fly instead of tiger direct. They are generally better regarded and I've known several people that have had bad experiences with tiger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 I use a Sony DW-D26A on my test computer and have probably loaded, cut & booted 50+ Linux Distros on that thing. I've never had a problem with it. I've never had a problem with CD's cut by this drive being read by other drives. FWIW I have spent over 30+ years in the data storage industry. Mostly disks and tapes. Half of that time as a real engineer designing interfaces, the other half in Marketing and Sales both in the USA and Europe. A fact of life in removable media, whatever it is, there is no 100% guarantee on media read/write compatibility from machine to machine and even with the same machine. If you write a media ( CD, Floppy, tape, whatever ) remove it from the drive and reinsert it in the same machine there is always the possibility that you won't be able to read what you just wrote and that on the same machine. The challenge is not the physical location of the "tracks" written to the media. It has more to do with what I will refer to here as the "tuning in" of the data stream. Reading magnetic or optical media is like tuning a radio. De-tune it and you can't hear the station (data). And there lies the compatibility issues. You'll not find anywhere a manufactures guarantee on read/write compatibility anymore. You assume it and the manufactures let you do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagrosse Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 I would also advise Not going with TigerDirect. They stiffed me for over $80 in rebates. Try http://www.geeks.com/ And they also have an eBay store with some Very good buys. I've been dealing with them for a few months now and have been very pleased. I bought most of my wife's new Athlon64 puter parts from them along with the DVD burner in mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 A Sony DVD burner? How come? Sony has stopped making DVD burners more than two years ago, and currently all its range are just OEM Lite-Ons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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