Advantages: Quiet, minimal CPU load, fast, reputable brand Disadvantages: No next track button (annoys me for some reason)
...more budget hardware.
The Pioneer DVD-106s is by no means a budget piece of hardware. Anyone interested in stereo and audio equipment in particular will already know that Pioneer have an extremely fine reputation for producing high quality, high performing goods. Ok, they may not be the cheapest in the world but when it comes to branding and performance, I'm a bit of a snob lol and will always try to buy the very best I can afford at the time. We ... ...doing), the people down at Pioneer Central have come up trumps with this again, the DVD-106s, that they claim to be superior to many other DVDs on the market with a similar price range and spec.
My pre-buying findings and experiences
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After a few bad experiences in my early PC days, I always research product ranges fully before making a purchase of a new bit of hardware for my comp and would strongly ...
craiggy_boy 25.04.2002
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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 ...
Deru 25.09.2004
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Advantages: Fast and stylish Disadvantages: Region Coded. - not anymore!
...That one is called the Pioneer DVD-116.
The slot-in design makes the drive look very nice once fitted into your computer. Installation is simple. Open the case. Find a free drive bay. Put drive in and screw screws in. Plug power cable in, and connect IDE cable. Connect digital audio cable if available and set jumper to Master, Slave or cable select, depending on your settings. Since I have my hard drive running in Master, I have this drive in Slave ... ...middle can be accessed easily. Pioneer has done this so that it reduces the amount of touching on the surfaces of the CD, and if used properly, you should never need to touch the surface of the CD, thus reducing scratching.
Region coding on DVDs. Not many people think about this when buying DVDs. But if you like to get stuff from all round the world, it'll be quite hard to watch them if the drive does not support that region. This drive DOES have ...
robertliu84 28.05.2001 (08.06.2001)
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Advantages: Speed. Slot loading. Disadvantages: None so far
So the Pioneer 106S - the S standing for slot drive which i must admit is the main reason for me purchasing this.
I did own its predecessor the Pioneer 104-S however i had to replace this because the laser eventually just gave up, it was about 3 years old although i wouldn't have expected it to do this. However i am aware all lasers wear out eventually. This previous problem made me a little reluctant to stick with another Pioneer but as i was such ... ...I couldn't resist.
The Pioneer DVD 106-S is a 16x DVD drive which i think is still just about the fastest on the market, it also reads normal CDs or CD/R / CD-RW at 40X. There is a lot more to the speed of the drive than those normally displayed on the front however, there is access times to consider and data transfer rates. I know for a fact that the Pioneer performs quite well on the data transfer as i have compare it to my Lite-on CD/rw drive ...
roberthart 21.01.2003
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...66 interface. So has Pioneer improved upon an already impressive drive?
The DVD-106S is an OEM version so the drive I gotso it was just the bare drive and the instructions. While Pioneer does have a retail version of the drive, the DVD-A06S, I have no idea if Pioneer North America plans on selling it at this time. Physical Features:
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Thankfully, there is a firmare release available for this drive that allows multi-region. Do this ... ...PIO Mode 4 spec. What Pioneer did with their older DVD-ROM drives was utilize UDMA 33. With UDMA 33 it was possible to reach a maximum 33MB/s. For the DVD-106S Pioneer does one better by including support for UDMA 66.
The ability to use UDMA 66 also allows you to run your DVD-ROM drive on the same IDE chain as say an Ultra-DMA harddrive. With IDE, the motherboard's IDE controller will talk to the IDE devices with the slowest mode available. For ...
Kevin_Pritchard 10.06.2001
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