What Dual Layer Burner To Buy?

Saltour Sossiez

My 360 has been flashed and now I need a DL burner. Which ones would you recommend?

Do I need to get one with bitsetting or would any one do?

Auvers

I used several drives without problems

this one should do the job

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=488176

docentore

Pioneer and only Pioneer. try to look for 111, 116, 215 or 216

Kinetic^

111 is the one I used to have and never ever had a problem with it.

Saltour Sossiez

docentore wrote: »

Pioneer and only Pioneer. try to look for 111, 116, 215 or 216

Would either of these be alright?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/NEW-PIONEER-216-SATA-DVD-RW-DUAL-LAYER-DVD-RAM-WRITER_W0QQitemZ140340926024QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Drives_Storage_CD_DVD_Drives_ET?hash=item20acf89648&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.ie/NEW-PIONEER-116D-BEIGE-20-CD-DVD-RW-DUAL-LAYER-BURNER_W0QQitemZ260466266376QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Drives_Storage_CD_DVD_Drives_ET?hash=item3ca4ffd108&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14


Another question, is there any sites where you can get these other than ebay?

docentore

Yes, those will be perfect.

I've got mine off ebay, I think I couldn't find any locally.

Saltour Sossiez

docentore wrote: »

Yes, those will be perfect.

I've got mine off ebay, I think I couldn't find any locally.

Thanks for the help.

I just have a couple more questions. The burner looks a bit chunky in the pictures although Im not sure do they give a real indication of the size.

Anyway, I have a standard Inspiron computer. Are the burners the standard size and do they fit into mostly all computers? It's just I don't want to buy it and end up with something that doesn't fit and I have no way to return it.

I'll throw up a picture of the free slot on the comp if need be. Sorry about all the questions.

docentore

don't neet to post picture, you will be fine, they are all standard. only thing which might not match is bezel colour, but I'm sure you can live with that

EDIT: the answer was based on the fact that you have a PC not laptop. If you have a laptop you would need to get an external enclosure for that

Saltour Sossiez

Edit - I have the comp open and I have the side taken off. Now, the drive doesn't just fit in so I obviously need to unscrew something to have space to get it into the slot , but what?

sherdydan

slot it in from the outside in. you only need the side open to connect the cables

Saltour Sossiez

sherdydan wrote: »

slot it in from the outside in. you only need the side open to connect the cables

Edit - I have taken off the front panel but the slot is covered. How do I go about taken this thing off? What should I do next?

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2215/dscf0010tk.jpg

docentore

take strong flat head scredriver and break the metal cover. it is welded in few places but it will pop out pretty easily

Saltour Sossiez

docentore wrote: »

take strong flat head scredriver and break the metal cover. it is welded in few places but it will pop out pretty easily

I just took out the old drive instead. The newer one can do everything the older one can anyway, so there was probably no point in having both.

Everything is sorted now. Thanks for the help.