Drives > Sony Drives > from 9x to 16x

Advantages: Well known brand.
Disadvantages: none

To begin with, it loks nice. The simple front design does away with exterior volume dials and headphone jacks, all there is, is one open/close button. It was incredibly easy to install. All i had to do was slot it in (making sure my jumper settings were correct for my set up) and install the cables into it. I used NERO to find out the results. To test the DVD i used CSI:Miami the game. Eject time: 1.62 seconds Close time: 1.56 seconds Spin-up ...
...DVD is 16x). Spin-down time (Time taken to reach standard revoloution rate after reaching fastest.) Spin -up time: 5.14 seconds Spin-Down time: 3.81 seconds Time taken for disc recognition: 10.05 seconds I would recommend this drive becasue it is simply fit and forget. I have given the instruction manual a totally unhelpful rating becasue it didn't come with one. With the drive you also get power DVD 5 ... Read review

Advantages: It's a Sony, so quality and style are excellent...
Disadvantages: It's a Sony, so it's a bit more expensive...

...most things, claiming (in the Sony documentation) to work with: DVD-R/-R DL/-RW, DVD+R/DVD+R DL/+RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD-DA, CD-ROM (XA), CD Extra, Video CD, Photo CD*, CD Text, multi-session (!) I've used the DRX-700UL on some CDR's and some DVD+R's (4.7GB) and have had no problems, no burning or buffer errors (the drive has a 2MB buffer). It can record up to 8.5GB capacity on one Double/ Dual Layer disc, but I just happened to find some DVD+R's ... Read review

Advantages: Great name for badge snobs
Disadvantages: Expensive with too many rough edges

...It seemed to me that Sony rushed this DVD unit to the market in order to be one of the very first with a multi-format drive. There were certainly rough edges right from the start. The main problems were with authoring DVD disks when the unit would start cutting and for reasons unknown would then find some error and eject the disk. Goodbye blank disk, hello another coaster. There was no real pattern to this and it would happen with a number of different ...
...one. That's not to say that every Sony drive is like this - far from it - the newer models appear to work well and their prices are quite competitive. They've even dropped the quirky looks of the 510A. But as for my one, its the thumbs down I'm afraid. ... Read review

Advantages: EVERYTHING
Disadvantages: NOTHING

SONY DVD REWRITABLE This is the device where you can replace your CD player and DVD player to DVD REWRITABLE. Sony is a very good and renowned company as everyone knows. In your computer there should be some place where you can fit the DVD rewritable in. This is only for PC. DVD players can play all the new DVDs you know. All the new games you know are now DVDs. This can be used to watch all the new films. You not only can watch them but you can ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and reliable writing, Quiet operation
Disadvantages: No DVD-RAM Support

Good general writing speeds to most media including + and - R Dual Layer discs The drive is fairly quiet whilst in operation and the build quality is higher than a lot of the drives in the same price range. We have installed these in 5 PCs, all in use for over a month and haven't had any problems with reliability. I have found it has good media compatibility with a variety of manufacturers, although as with most DVD writers, you will find some ... Read review