Good Burner?

[HaGGardSmurf]

My burner is apparently going, the quality of my backups has been decreasing in the last little while.

I am looking for a new dvd burner, any ideas on what will work best for game backups? I think ill keep my current drive, and use it for odd tasks, and use the other drive for purly burning 360 games. I have another 2 slots for drives in my comp, so im good for that...

[cyantific]

I prefer Lite-On and Pioneer burners which are around the twenty dollar range on newegg. Never had a problem with either of them.

[dalecheesy]

Yeah pioneer for me too. Got a 111D and it's still going strong.

[HaGGardSmurf]

I have a lite-on right now, I dont mind it, its cool

I was thinking pioneer, I may have a look on new-egg for the two.

Cant really find anything on newegg... Theres not much there.

[HaGGardSmurf]

Just a update, I found an LG, I was told by a couple people at best buy thats the burner they personally use, and have never had a problem. I am willing to bet those guys are burning cds/dvds and not xbox games. My lite-on will burn cd's and dvd's fine at the moment, but I think its a bit too tired to burn good xbox games

Anyways... This is the drive I am looking at: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/P ... ME%29.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks pretty good to me it at least has more than 1 speed for burning dual layer media. My current burner only supports 4x for DL.

[dalecheesy]

I tend to only burn at 2.4 speed even when i've used 8x discs. I'd rather wait a bit extra than waste a disc but i'm tight.

[HaGGardSmurf]

I must have bought some 4x disks... My burner supports 2.4x for DL media, but whenever I look at the speed, its always 4x. Ehh, I guess the quality is still perfect

[trailz]

Although I haven't done any backups with them, my laptop and desktop have Samsungs that have never given me problems. My dad had two Pioneers die on him though, and he hardly ever used them. Luck of the draw, I guess.

[HaGGardSmurf]

I bought the LG I posted, and it worked WONDERS, I am now using this as my burner for misc tasks. I then bought a samsung and bought a 4 year in store replacement. The store I bought it from is the best for computer stuff, its not like your best buy or future shop who try to f*** you with their service plans.

Anyways, I can almost guarantee the laser on this drive is going to go... I have 77 disks sitting on my tower waiting to be used for backups (I had over 100)

I like to burn at 4x it takes 24 min's I think, but if I am in a real rush to get a game burned I burn at 6x and it takes like 15 mins. Most times I install the game to my HDD to make sure the disk works 100% and they all have so far.


Oh, but on a side note....
In my tower right now I have 3 drives. LG burner, Samsung Burner, Samsung SH-D163B (Kreon Drive)

When I installed my sammy burner it was cool, I didnt need to install anything, or do anything besides plug and play really... I decided to use the live update tool to check if there was any new FW for the drive. So I installed it, and ran it, and it updated my drive. Turns out it updated my Kreon drive to a new FW. Had A hell of a time trying to backup madden 10, the drive would not unlock, which seemed to me that there was something wrong with the FW, then I remembered the update...