cd burners

treefingers

can anyone recommend a good burner to get thats reasonably priced??

also, what should be the min speed of the burner i get? ..ie what speeds are too slow? (as you can see i dont really have a clue what im looking for, except something that burns cds!)

joePC

LG CD-RW 52X / 32X / 52X. I think its the fastest out there maybe not......

You can get this for about €60 if you know where to look.

Thanks joe...........

OfflerCrocGod

Anything above 24X is fine too high and the vibrations will make a ton of noise and your computer will vibrate it should be very cheap around €50.

parasite

get a dvd burner, that burns cd's too, from komplett ~80 eurons

Capt'n Midnight

MSI CD-recorder IDE 52x/24x/52x Black
CR52X. , Intern Bulk www.Komplett.ie special offer EUR 39.00 inc. VAT

But no software etc.


any link to that €80 euro DVD writer - cheapest I can see is about €130..

treefingers

thanks folks.

is there a big difference in price between external/internal? is it hard to install internal ones? cheers!

Mutant_Fruit

External are generally a bit more expensive, as they have to have an external power supply, and have to have a nice durable case to keep em safe. Also, you'd really need USB2 or firewire, or else you're gonna have slow burning speeds.

Internal drives are easy to set up, its simply just taking out the little cover blocking up the empty drive bay, slotting the drive in and putting in 2 screws so it doesn't fall out, and then attaching 2 cables. The cables themselves are impossible to put in backwards.

po0k

Originally posted by Mutant_Fruit
External are generally a bit more expensive, as they have to have an external power supply, and have to have a nice durable case to keep em safe. Also, you'd really need USB2 or firewire, or else you're gonna have slow burning speeds.

Internal drives are easy to set up, its simply just taking out the little cover blocking up the empty drive bay, slotting the drive in and putting in 2 screws so it doesn't fall out, and then attaching 2 cables. The cables themselves are impossible to put in backwards.

You have to set the Master/Slave jumpers too, but that's covered in great detail in almost every manual.
Very easy to do if you take your time.
And far far cheaper than getting some "professional" to do it.

Repli

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
MSI CD-recorder IDE 52x/24x/52x Black
CR52X. , Intern Bulk www.Komplett.ie special offer EUR 39.00 inc. VAT

But no software etc.


any link to that €80 euro DVD writer - cheapest I can see is about €130..

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?action=info&sku=115676&p=&t=1897&l=2&AvdID=1&CatID=3&GrpID=10&cks=PRL

Decent enough burner but i heard from reviews that some dvd+r media is not compatible with it (princo i think)

Col_Loki

That's the burner i have ND1100A , and im very happy with it. Burns DVD's at 4x and cd's at 16x ....... no incompatable types that ive found so far, the cheap MMORE ones from komplett are fine, along with Verbatim, and Memorx.

Sooo cheap @ €77 , i think i paid like €200 ........ feck .