How to choose CD Burner.?

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Hello.

Now, I am considering to buy CD-Burner.
I had used Teac and LiteOn, and I never had problem
with both of them(to burn music, data, and etc).

However I read the article about CD-Burner,
that dragon said some "cheap" CD-Burner has
trouble to make music CD.

As lowest, I saw 52x CD-Burner around 40 dollar
from Berq or Artec. In other hand, Plextor or
Yamaha goes up to hundred dollar for 40x CD Burner.
(I don't really care about speed though =)

By the way, my question is that are cheap and
unknown brand-name's CD Burner really caused problem
when I make music CD(if so, what about data cd?)?

Also, I will be grade if anybody can tell me about
Artec or Berq. And don't forget to post what is your
favorit CD Burner ^_^

Have nice day.
and see you!
 
Get the plextor. As with most things, you get what you pay for. I've had mine for years and, although it's a little slow by todays standards, I've never once burned a disk that didn't work, or made any drink coasters.
 
I'm not even sure what my CD Burner is anymore, I believe it was a lite-on (painted it black), and have never made a bad CD and I use generic CDs...though, when backing up my data files for my home audio I use "name brand" -" just incase."

But when it comes to CD-R/W drives (internal ones), I have the same quality I get out of using others more expensive "plextor" drives...it's a name really. There was a point when Plextor WAS the name of CD-Burning they were ultra reliable and brought nice protection features to the table.

In a day now when DVD-R/W drives are starting to become the standard burning device in a home PC, it's come to the point where it almost really doesn't matter where you get your CD-R/W drive from (as long as the name is in english I say).

You can make GREAT PCs for cheap these days, and it's not because the quality is bad, it's just how rapid the technology progress' in the computer market.

When it comes to music recording I believe yes, you get what you pay for.

But when it comes to PC hardware, that formula almost just doesn't really exist.

I see no reason to try and compare and waste a pretty pretty on a CD-Burner they are cheap because now even decent DVD-R/W drives are becoming very standard in the home computer market.

When I bought my first CD-R drive four years ago, external that burned: 4x2x12x and cost me $100 (eBay price) it's cause CD burners were just becoming the thing.

And Plextor still wants to charge an arm and a leg for burners?
I'm sorry the competitors in the CD-R/W market are right up there with Plextors once "the name" to have products.

I don't see this as the case anymore.
 
Thanks, guys.

Now I am just thinking to get cheap CD-Burner
from "Berq" or "Artec". (feel sorry for Hawking :-)
However, anybody know or heard that brand-name?
because i've never heard them before.

And lastly, what is or what WAS the problem to make music CD
when used cheap, or unknown brand-name CD burner??

Again, I really appreciate all you guys,
and have nice day all time!
 
for correction regarding my burner it's an artec drive, not Lite-On
Though I have used a lite-on drive quite a bit before, mainly before I go to a show with my friend Henry from the band Sangre and we make promo CDs to pass out at the show.

Never had a coaster from his drive, and I've never had one from mine. I believe his CDs at his house are generic too.

and I can't recall hearing about "berq"

when CD burners were a piece of hardware where it was a day of "you get what you pay for" Plextor brought nice "over-burn" protection features to their drives most others didn't. And they did good as far as not getting buffer under-runs.

The only Burner I really ever had problems with was a refurbished Sony external USB 4x2x12x drive I bought off eBay a long time ago.

My problems were I couldn't turn the drive on 'til Windows loaded, I could only burn data CDs at 4x anything else would do buffer under-run. So, all other stuff had to burn at 2x. It was so sketchy I even did test burns before the actual burn.

With my Artec drive I never do test burns, because well the year I've had the thing where I burn at least a CD every other day I've never had a coaster and I use generic CDs for everything except original audio data back-ups.
 
I bought an Artec about six months ago because it was chaep (about $50) and came with a full version of Nero, which I love. It worked for a while and now reports continuous problems (a variety of messages).

I bought this on to replace an older one that came with the PC, so I put the old one back in and it was fine. I put the Artec back in and had problems again.

So about a month ago I bought a USB 2.0 Plextor PlexWriter and it has worked like a champ on both of my PCs. So now I have a 48x CD-RW I can put on either PC and never have to worry about coasters. I've loaded up both PCs while burning and the worst it does is slow up the burn. Knock wood, but the Plextor has been a perfect performer so far (high speed and NO coasters).
 
So.. do you mean Artec CD burner has problems..?

oh.. my god, I ordered Artec 52x CD burner few hours ago;;

Give me more detail, please, DaveO.
 
So.. do you mean Artec CD burner has problems..?

oh.. my god, I ordered Artec 52x CD burner few hours ago;;

Give me more detail, please, DaveO.
 
You can always return it.
I've never used cheap writers.
I've always used Plextor or Yamaha. They've never failed me, but I have worn them out. Lasers are only good for so long.
 
Yeah, I had problems with my Artec. But then again, I did *not* say Artec sucks, just that I had problems with mine. I might have just gotten that rare bad drive from them, who knows. I just took a chance because it was so cheap and in this case I got what I paid for. I still have it, thinking I'll someday get around to really fiddling with it to see what's happening (not likely, but you never know). I can also tell you that I'm extremely happy with my new CD-RW drive (Plextor Plexwriter), though.

Since you already ordered it, give it a shot. If it doens't work for you then return it.
 
I agree with going with Plextor. Also, Sony makes a good, dependable burner too. Those two brands have been the only two that I haven't have any problems with (I haven't used Yamaha's but hear that they work pretty good....I don't like Yamaha audio gear, so I guess I have always avoided their stuff...).

I have had too many coasters from Lite On's. I would stay away from them.

I don't agree with Nosferous's assessment on computer parts. While like any hardware peices there exist's stuff that is over priced, I have found that the stuff that is a bit more expensive winds up serving you better over the long run, and that the more expensive stuff "plays" better with other hardware.

Again, I suggest the Plextor CD/RW drives. They work very well.

Ed
 
I have two yamaha burners and have no complaints at all. I am keeping them for reliability and ablity to burn at all speeds starting from 1x and 2x - the slowest burn speed of most current cheap burners is 4x, or more likely 8x.
Yamaha also have their propritary "audio master" mode, which is useful at times.
 
I guess I'm just lucky, or I know how to use my computer better.
As I do believe the better percent of computer errors are user error and the users lack of knowledge on the machine.

as the only drive I ever had problems with was a external usb 1 refubished Sony CD-RW drive, and then my moms old friends PC from an era where I did believe plextor was on top. But from my personal use I don't believe they are anymore.
 
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