PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Built my PC back in Feb. April my Optical Drive died it was a cheap sata Lite-on DVD Burner i paid $30 for and well ya Lite-on Support sucks and i have sicne used my pc with out an optical drive i need a new one.Must be: Sata, Under $150, DVD/CD Burner.Next my 2 320 seagate HD's running Raid 0 are almost full.SSD are too pricy for me for the storage i need, so i was looking at the the new seagate 1 1/2 terabyte for $189suggestions are appercaited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I'd go for a Pioneer(like this one) or a Sony NEC drive for your CD/DVD, you're set with a 30-50 dollar model from them ;)For your HD I'd go for a Samsung Spinpoint F1. 500 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB.Where do you live and where are you planning on buying?I wonder where you're buying, because these prices you are talking about are like... WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 The web. the two main sites I use are TigerDirect and NewEgg, I have bought from oter sites as well like xoide, frozen cpu, etc...The HD Seagate 1.5 TB i was thinking about figured it would last till SSD's get upto at least 500-750 gig's neverthough i would use 600 gigs but in less then a year damn!still looking though Optical Burners, I might breakdown and just get the $500+ sony blu-ray burner lol J/K do they have have blu-ray blank media?EDIT: SONY SATA DVD Burner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 I like the samsung spinpoint F1 hd's but i need the extra storage depending on my next pay check i'm thinking of just getting 2 seagate's @ 7.9 cents a gig and running them both in RAID 1 and keep one of my 320Gig's as internal backup and convert the other to an external and sell it here on campus since I have enough flash drives for my external carry needs an 8 gig for everything a 4 gig for my tech tools, and a 2gig setup as a boot disk with linux and windows, i have another 8 gig i'm trying to get $30 for from kingston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Just get an external DVD Burner.Internal CD / DVD Burners breaks easily because they are constantly turned on, while external CD / DVD burners can be turned off if not being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 not so true today at least not for me i have external sata and power connectors the last one i had was junk and after browsing the web i found it had a high failur rateNote: After serching the web, and reading tons of reviews I decided to stick with the sony I never used LG an LG product so i kinda backdown from that went with my first pick.nice thing is I still have blackbox enclosor from the old burner so i'll swap them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Other brands may have high failure rate, but my external ASUS CD / DVD RW never failed me for the past 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 how do you feel about the cd/dvd burner hd/blu-ray reader combo's i've seen a few but makes weary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Well, I haven't used Blu-Ray yet.I guess I am contented just with DVD's :rolleyes: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucow Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 For DVD burners, I suggest one of their latest burners. Pioneers, as suggested by shought, are great. But if I still remember, certain Samsung models are better. Check out cdfreaks for comparisons, reviews, discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychoticxBloodxLust Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 awesomeness thanks bucow i bought a Sony sata dvd burner from Tigerdirect sony - dru-v200s model works nice i love itit doesn't have lightscribe but i have not used it once in my life havn't really found a reason when a simple fine point black sharpie is just as good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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