Looking For SATA burner

Currently I have
Samsung 182M
BenQ 1620
NEC 3500

The BenQ is actually pretty good along with the samsung, i can't say the same for the NEC 3500... unfortunately as i've found out both the samsung and the NEC does horribly with my cheapo DVD-R media, i have yet to try the BenQ (on a different system)... one last point that have hit me hard is that i'm on the Gigabyte DS3 mobo that does not allow more than 2X IDE device (which is bull because 1HDD 1DVDRW and i'm done).... so i'm looking for a new SATA drive to slap around with.

I've tried and tried to look for a decent/cheap drive, i've narrowed down to this, i don't care about scanning or lightscribe (have both already on my BenQ and Samsung)

1) Pioneer 212 (i heard it's real good quality) the price is stiff though, ~40 bucks for a dam 18X drive is pretty sad
2) LG 55N, too dam bad LG don't make any SATA drive, this is gonna suck balls
3) Liteon 21A1 this one is SATA + 20X + 40 bucks, the quality of the writing is a bit "unstable" compare to the pioneer

that's pretty much it, for features the Liteon just kick ass for the price, i can't say the same for burn quality. I might have to wip out the BenQ 1620 to test with this dam DVD-R media.

i attached some scans for the 8X burn i did with the samsung... it looks pretty bad, @ 12X it's a bit worst, the disc is readable everywhere but i prefer a bit better quality (saw some scans up here that look real good), the disc is fake MCC, it's the 480 for 5 bucks @ staple lol.

LG GSA-H62N = SATA I believe

Don't know if you can find one near you, though.

Edit: for fake MCC those scans aren't bad at all (OK, so PIE's a bit high), though I'd wonder what a transfer rate test on them is like.

how do you do a transfer rate test? i can do it for you

one more thing, is there a huge difference when it comes to external and internal DVDRW burning? i have an extra enclosure that i can probably slap the BenQ in and burn @ 8X... obviously i can't put another burner in .

no SATA LG drive around here... might have to wait a bit.

In Nero CD-DVD Speed, under the "Run Test" menu, you'll see "Transfer Rate" - click that whilst having the Benchmark tab open

As for externals...I have an external LG (GSA-E10N), and a BenQ 1640 that I put into an enclosure, both are just fine at 8x

Edit: Rats, sorry you can't find an SATA LG

ok, i'm burning some + media on the fake MCC, will do a bench later (probably up in 30min or so) but from the sound of that, i think it's probably ok for me to slap the BenQ in the external enclosure. save some money lol.

Samsung SATA is the good one also although I have yet to try any SATA myself.

Using the Samsung183L, Pioneer 212d, LiteOn 16A7S, ASUS1815BLT, I think the Pioneer is a great choice. I am ordering the LGH62 this evening and believe it will be a good choice also.

i have a samsung, it'll be the same, i rather have something else to give me more variable in burning differnt type of disc