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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:21 am
by jojo4u
Digerati, my post was a follow-up. The listed units were mediums, no burners. Look up in the thread.
About the noise: The C't tests in sone and I have two figures. The first is reading CDs and the second is reading Video-DVDs.
Asus 5,9/2,8 sone
LG 8,2/2,7 sone
Lite-On 7,4/1,7 sone
OptiArc 8,0/7,9 sone
Pioneer 6,9/0,9 sone
Plextor 7,7/7,7 sone
Samsung 6,1/1,6 sone
Recommended DVD Burners
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:51 pm
by montxsuz
Thank you jojo
I am surprised by the results. This LG model is nearly last overall, many consider it a quiet brand. Overall the quietest on average seems to be Samsung and Pioneer, given these models.
Could you do a similar table of overall quality & reliability results? You mentioned Plextor was best in the test. I would expect Pioneer to be good as well?
Thanks
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:10 am
by rei
Pioneer finally released a fancy-bezel retail-kit SATA version of their drive in Japan right now. I have an IDE version of the a09 drive and it is much quieter than all other drives I've used.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:13 am
by rei
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:15 am
by rei
Looks like I'll be getting this one from Cokefans.
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:33 am
by Alex
The drive will retail in Japan early June
I will consider to buy this one, the only thing is I would prefer an external (USB) DVD burner but they are also more expensive.
Thanks jojo for your "sone" table where Pioneer is the quietest DVD reader and 3:rd quietest CD reader of the lot.
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:25 pm
by rei
just put it in a fanless alum enclosure.
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:00 pm
by halcyon
Remember the latter figures from the c't test are for 1x dvd playback.
If you use a data dvd, the drive will read at 8-20x (depending on read strategy, part of the disk, etc).
This will be incredibly loud, esp. in the case of LiteOn.
I'd recommend Pioneer myself.
What DVD writer is good at RW writing quality and can write
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:47 am
by d
halcyon wrote:Remember the latter figures from the c't test are for 1x dvd playback.
If you use a data dvd, the drive will read at 8-20x (depending on read strategy, part of the disk, etc).
This will be incredibly loud, esp. in the case of LiteOn.
I'd recommend Pioneer myself.
Pioneers do not write DVD-RAM. RAM is the most reliable (through hardware means) media for modifying disk contents.
What DVD writer is good at RW writing quality and can write to DVD-RAM?