I purchased a HP Dvd1040i 20X Multiformat DVD Writer for my home PC back at the end of 2009, having only paid £30 for the drive at the time (I believe they are £20ish now) I wasnt expecting much, However -
I have had absolutely no problems with this drive, it was very easy to install and required no setup what so ever once booted up.
There is not much else you can say about a DVD drive aside from the fact that it is very reliable, reads and burns at a decent speed and is still working fine now (15 months down the line).
The drive itself is a very reasonable price and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a solid reliable drive for their PC. ...
This DVD drive is a good little unit, and was more reasonably priced than the Pioneer 10x which looks very similar..!! I've thrown all sorts of media at this drive including many brands of CD-RW etc and it has coped with them all. DVD playback is superb, no faults i can mention. Installation was very easy. very little to do in the sense of setting it up, but this is generally the same with most DVD drives.
There is a little jerkyness on ejection of media which is more noticable on thicker DVDs but there have been no problem other than that. The new faster breed of DVDs have now come out, with no apparent use so far so hopefully it should be possible to get one of these older units cheaper, which would be well worth the money. I'll recommend this unit to anyone. ...
