Drives > AOpen Drives > IDE > 49x and faster > 52x

Advantages: Very cheap, intelligent electronics keep wasted disks to a minimum
Disadvantages: None so far. How long can something this cheap last?

...purchase, but it’s replacement, an AOpen CRW5224, is only costing me a shade over £30 (yes thirty!) from www.dabs.com, AND it’s got a maximum write speed to CD-R of 52x, making full CD copies possible in just a few minutes, and I do mean a few. AOpen may well be more familiar to you as the makers of motherboards. Even if this machine only lasts the 12-month guarantee period and no longer, it’ll only cost me 66p a week to own (as for the DVD player, ...
...WORK FOR ME? The AOPen 5224, being a very recent model may give you one other headache. Can your 2-year-old CD-burning software recognise it? Just to make sure, I visited the Roxio homepage to see if any updates to my Easy CD-Creator 5.0 Platinum were available. As a precaution, I went the whole hog and took not only the main update download, but also, a minor one dated 11/09/2003, which claimed to add still more models to the software’s compatibility ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, easy to connect, usually runs without mains adapter.
Disadvantages: Only Lightscribe forces the use of the mains adapter.

...it also found me the LiteOn Slim 8-speed Lightscribe* USB drive, which unlike its desktop counterpart, uses the slim-line drive for a laptop and sticks it in a box the size of a slim paperback. It can also run with the 5 volts supplied by the USB port, and so only needs one connecting cable and no bloody mains adapter under normal conditions, thus making it suitable for putting into one of those side pockets of a laptop's carrying case. (*Luke Skywalker's ...
...to buying LiteOn DVD drives is the fact that some nerd has written a little utility for them called LTNRPC.exe. "Whoopee-doo!" I hear you cry. Well, you may or may not know that Windows only allows for 5 switches of DVD movie region before it locks to the last one. This means that anyone with a 'transatlantic' DVD collection of Regions 1 and 2 had better not use their PC to watch movies otherwise, as my Mum used to say, 'you'll get stuck like that!" ... Read review

Advantages: Multi-format Blu-ray and DVD/CD writer in one, HD Video Recording
Disadvantages: Havent any additional IDE or SATA Interface

...16x/CD-ROM 40X The Drive LaCie d2 is a Blu-ray/DVD/CD records, rewrites and reads 25 gigabytes GB or 50GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable), as well as DVD±RW DL and CD±RW. The Drive comes fully equipped with Roxio burning software and dual FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces. Why FireWire? FireWire 400, also known as IEEE 1394, is a high-speed serial input /output technology for connecting peripheral devices to a computer or to each other. ...
...and graphics. it is Hot-pluggable, daisy-chainable and flexible up to 63 devices can be connected on a single bus. Blu-ray 50GB discs used in the BD Drive offer 10x more capacity than a single layer DVD. This increased capacity gives professionals the freedom to choose much higher bit rate codecs when mastering content, ultimately improving picture quality. For increased audio quality, Blu-ray technology allows for up to eight channels of 92kHz/32 ... Read review

Advantages: fast and reliable
Disadvantages: dont detect cd burn in another dvd or cd drives.

sony dvd has serious problems the cds which we burn in any other dvd drives like LG dont work in sony dvd drives it dont detect at all it detects only cd discs what we burn in sony dvd drives only sony has to rectify this problem as soon as possible other wise they loose lot of thier customers and most of the cds which we write in another dvd drives dont work at all in sony dvd drive a part of this problem rest of the things are perfect these dvd ... Read review

Advantages: low noise and reliable
Disadvantages: no disadvantages compared to any other similar class of drives

...LG, SONY, but samsungs Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S202J is best drive comparitively to any other dvd drive of its class it dont create any noise at all while buring CD or DVD. its really so fast in burning CD and DVD more over very secure it dont spoils CD. i believe in samsung products alot because they create reliable products and it works longer for years. Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S202J is compatible to all deskop computers. in developing ... Read review