Consumer - HD/CD/DVD/Flash

Re: DVD+/-RW Drive Round-Up

higgielk — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:41:09 GMT

I recently purchased the Asus drive, and probably will return it for another. It works, but doesn't seem to be able to read DVD+R DL disks. I have tried TDK and Sony so far. It received good reviews, but I fear I should have purchased the Lite-On.

Re: DVD+/-RW Drive Round-Up

Dave_HH — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:10:21 GMT

ahhh interesting factoid ther BigBam. Welcome to HH by the way! :)

Re: DVD+/-RW Drive Round-Up

BigBamBoom — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:56:14 GMT

Great review !

Your quote on the Plextor's dimples

The top of the drive has an odd sort of dimpling, that may have something to do with stablilizing a disc from above. If so, it is the only drive to have this kind of construction.

Those dimples are there to use the case as a heatsink to cool all the electronic components, various chips. Kenwood did the same with the X52 and X72.

mazuki — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:32:18 GMT

though i am surprised to see the plextor outperform the others in writing.....i have the IDE version of this lite-on and it is wonderful, the noise isn't great, but i can handle it

DVD+/-RW Drive Round-Up

News — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:38:36 GMT

Just in case you're the type who likes to jump right down to the news, we’re writing to let you all know that we’ve just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features, performance and overall value of three DVD+/-RW drives, the Asus DRW-2014L1T, the Lite-On LH-20A1H, and finally the Plextor PX-810SA. Each drive has a somewhat different feature set and rated speeds, but they’re all equipped with a SATA interface. Click the link below and check them out...

DVD+/-RW Drive Round-Up: Plextor, Asus, Lite-On