Drives > Pioneer Drives > DVD-ROM

Advantages: No tray (cool!), fast loading, reliable
Disadvantages: Bit noisy, No black bezel, Can't use 8cm CDs or weird shaped, Can't use it as a cup holder =P

...is a review of the Pioneer 106s DVD-ROM drive. It's basically a CD drive, which enables me to read DVD discs on my computer. This drive reads DVDs at 16x or around 21MB/s, which is pretty standard these days! There's also an A06s model, which is the same but mine is the 106s, OEM equivalent of the A06s retail drive. OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer and this means that the drive does not come with things such as a retail box, manuals, ...
...apart from it being a Pioneer branded drive, a respected manufacturer in electrical and computing equipment, the drive itself has no tray! Normally, when you press the eject button, a tray comes out, allowing you to place your CD/DVD on it, to be retracted back into the drive. Not with this one! This drive has a slot in place of the tray bit, meaning you can just slot your CD/DVDs into the drive without having to wait for a tray to come out. Have ... Read review

Advantages: Fast CD and DVD
Disadvantages: No instructions (OEM ver)

...completely. It is now being replaced. I have been told (unsurprisingly) that this is a 1 in a million case. All in all I would recommend this to a friend, on account of it being a very quick 40xCD, 10xDVD drive and Pioneer having good customer support. ... Read review

Advantages: fast, looks great, multiregion capable
Disadvantages: a little noisy, not brilliantly priced at the moment

I decided that it was time I got something to play DVD's on. As im from the UK , but dont mind ordering DVD's from the USA I thought id make sure I got a good multiregion drive. This drive has multiregion firmware avalible on the net, so you can flash upgrade it to be able to play any DVD in the world. It's a fairly simple, painless process and only needs to be done once. The actual drive is very fast, Its more than capable of playing anything the ...
...probably because although the slot has hairs covering it it dosent block all the air / noise as well as a piece of plastic would. This isnt a reall problem, and the drive spins down to a much quieter rate fairly quickly. Ihave had no problems at all with this drive and would definatly recomend it. You might however want to cosider wether the extra speed is worth paying for, as it dosent really matter for movies and there are currently few DVD software ... Read review

Advantages: Very, very cheap; SATA; Fast; Reads/Writes most DVD formats
Disadvantages: Only comes in beige; No DVD-RAM writing (Read Only)

...REVIEW I bought my Pioneer DVR-212D, a few days ago for just £11 inc. VAT, BRAND NEW, from eBuyer.com. I hope you agree that's an incredible price for a S-ATA DVD rewriter. I only really needed the Pioneer drive to aid in testing the functionality of another more current P-ATA DVD-RW drive that was exhibiting some very odd behaviour that I wasn't absolutely certain was the drive's fault, so I wasn't too fussy about it being highly specified. Having ...
...the drive vertically. Being Pioneer I imagine longevity is a given, at least here in my household they have an enviable reputation for reliability. I have never managed to break anything I have bought from them in the past. It doesn't seem to matter what quality of disc you present it with either, it just accepts any old tat. Even the really nasty 8x reject DVDs my local computer emporium tries to pass of as quality gear work in this drive, a welcome ... Read review

Advantages: ummmmm
Disadvantages: Doesn't work very well, slow, intermitently recognises disks, poor back up service, need I go on?

I ordered my Freecom DVD Recorder LS USB 2.0 after my CD/DVD drive packed up on my 15 month old HP Desktop. I wanted it mainly to load CD ROM and burn DVD's from movies already converted to DVD format on my hard drive. Being that my PC had no disk drive I relied upon this external drive to load the bundled DVD burning software (Roxio 9). This took several days and many attempts. Then I tried burning my first DVD. After taking 3 hours to do a task ... Read review