I’m about ready to take the plunge for a DVD writer, but am wondering which DVD writer has the best CDR writing capabilites. My current setup consists of an Lite-On LTD163 and Lite-On LTR52246S and would like to keep the LTD 163 in, as I like the fast speed and virtually error free extraction and replace the LTR52246S.
I will continue to do a lot of audio burning (probably more than DVD) so the CD writing capabilites is very important.
I usually only write CDs at 24-32x so speed isn’t as big an issue as reliabilty and accuracy with the CD writer.
Or do I have this backwards, and should replace the DVD ROM drive and leave in the CD writer?
Any and all thoughts are welcome.
TIA
Go for the Liteon 411S.
Sell your 163 and 52246S and buy a combo and a DVD writer. The 411s is not a good choice to CD-R/RW.
yet another option would be to do what i did and buy a pci ide controller card and move ur hard drive(s) to that. u can then run up to four optical drives on the motherboard’s controllers and u won’t have to get rid of any existing drives.
@Lvsitano
Can you please explain why you think 411 is not good for CD writing?
@hilander
Currently best all around CD/DVD writer is 411. I have one myself and so far no problems. But many people don’t have a good opinion about it. Let’s see what others suggest.
Thanks for the replies. Some interesting ideas that I hadn’t considered.
If there is a faster drive for extraction with EAC than the LTD163 I’d like toknow about it, but that’s the reason for wanting to keep it. I can burn upwards of 50 audio disks a week, and it worth it for me if I can save an hour or two on extraction .
The PCI controller card is an interesting idea, I think I have an extra bay and PCI slot, and if I went that route, I guess the Pioneer AO6 would be the the logical choice from what I have read.
But I too would like to know why the 411 wouldn’t be a good choice for CDR burning. The review of the 401 at CDRLabs gave it a good score and I would presume the 411 CD burner would be the same.
If there are any other thoughts, I love to hear them.
i’ve seen that dvd burners in general don’t burn cds with as high quality as normal cd burners, but i don’t know if that’s the case with the 411S, so i have no opinion on its write quality. however, the 52246S has a reputation for producing high quality burns, so if write quality is ur main concern, using the 52246S to burn cds would be a good idea.