CD burners

[Helevitia]

I bought my HP 12x4x32 burner a few years ago for $300.00

I just bought a 52x32x52 for $34.99...amazing!

BTW, just in case someone is interested, newegg is having a sale for another 1 and 15 minutes on this drive.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=27-106-197

[Tomasz]

I'm still happy with my 48x24x48 Lite-on that I bought several months ago for ~$50. Much better deal than the 4x Ricoh MP7040a drive that I bought in 1999 for ~$400.

[Helevitia]

~$50 is still a good price for that drive IMO. I just happened to catch this drive at the right time.

Dave

[Tjalfe]

I remember paying ~$800 cdn for a 4x yamaha back in 1996/97 ..a great match for the $10 - $15 blank CD's of the time

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by Helevitia
~$50 is still a good price for that drive IMO. I just happened to catch this drive at the right time.

Dave

They had the same sale last week, too. I bought 2 of them for friends

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by SitFlyer
They had the same sale last week, too. I bought 2 of them for friends

I remember that sale and everyday I would look at it and contemplate buying it. Finally I decided to buy it and it was over LOL. I think it was $32.99 last week wasn't it?

Dave

[Admiral]

What's the noise level on that burner ?
My Teac rivals a jumbo jet and I might end up replacing it with a Lite On or LG.

[Helevitia]

good question, wish I knew. I figure it can' be much noisier than my cpu fan.

[DentyCracker]

Why'd you guys have to bring this up. I paid US$300 for my first Ricoh 4x burner. Firmware upgraded the sucker to 6x. I got this 52x LiteOn for 40 quid a few months back. Next burner will be a 4x or 8x dual burner when they drop below 100 quid (including vat)

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Admiral
What's the noise level on that burner ?
My Teac rivals a jumbo jet and I might end up replacing it with a Lite On or LG.

I got my new burner last night. It's actually very quiet and VERY fast. I burned a new CD in 2:23 @ 24x

[Gurm]

Liteon burners are quiet. Their DVD-ROM's, on the other hand, are absurdly loud.

- Gurm

[dZeus]

There are lots of spindle-speed capping utilities around. At 4/12 (DVD/CD) speed, even the loudest drives are very quiet. And more than fast enough for most purposes.

[Tomasz]

And better yet, most of these utilites are free. That's why I use Nero DriveSpeed to slow down my Lite-on DVD drive to 12x or 16x for normal usage. I only use it at full speed when installing software.