Ark

So, I wondered if anyone had any suggestions on manufacturers and decent prices. Bear in mind I'm in the UK, and converting prices gives me a headache, breaks me out in cold sweat, and last time I passed out and whacked my head off the desk. Now I see things.

... So, any help would be greatly appreciated. And just to clarify something, would a DVD-RW drive be able to write to bog-standard CDs, or just DVDs.
The matter's mostly academic, but that'll be the deciding factor over whether to use a 3rd bay or replace one of my other drives.
And using a 3rd bay means I'll have to muck about with changing the CPU fan-speed knob to use an AGP bay, and I can't unscrew the blasted thing - It's held in place by paperclips.

I ramble, and the night, she scares me.

ricvic961

Hi. I dont know about the currency exchange thing but-- I just bought a Sony DVDR at newegg. com and the price cant be beat for the quality. It is 88.50 there and I can buy it locally here for 129.00, so quite a deal. They are great with returns and shipping, so I would recommend them. Also, this burns dvds and cds. Just like your basic cd burner but also burns dvds!! Here is a link to the one I bought and I would recommend it. Cant beat Sony I dont think. Comes with the nero software also, and that is worth a bunch right there. Just a note too-I was told to buy only dvd -, not dvd+. Oh well, hope I helped, and here is that link.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...131-236&depa=1

Fox

Newegg is great, but unfortunately they don't ship internationally. If you can find anything from BenQ or IOMagic (I bought a repackaged BenQ drive labelled as a IO in November for 50 dollars- approximately 27 pounds), you'd probably have success with that.

Ark

How Ironic that I only get suggestions after buying a drive.

Anyway, I was warned off Sony drives - Seems a lot of people I know, having had them, have had them pack up. Twice in some cases.
Anyway, I heard good things about LiteOn, it was the cheapest I found, so I bought one of them.

Fox

I've also heard good things about LiteOn- I'm sure you'll do just fine with any drive. It usually either works or doesn't, and you'll know after the first disc burnt which one you have.

Ark

Details! Details!

LiteOn SOHW-1653S Dual Layer 16x DVD±RW ReWriter - OEM (CD-037-LO)
LiteOn's dual layer DVD rewriter offers the ability to write to the new DVD+R9 media which effectively doubles the capacity over normal DVD disks from 4.7Gb to 8.5Gb whilst maintaining exceptional single layer writing performance. This DVD dual plus and minus rewriter is able to write both DVD+R and DVD-R media at 16x, rewrite DVD+RW and DVD-RW media at 4x, and write CDR's and CDRW's at 40x and 24x respectively to ensure backward compatibility with current formats.

- DVD+R 16x
- DVD-R 16X
- DVD+R9 2.4X
- DVD+RW 4X
- DVD-RW 4X
- Read 16X
- Access time 160ms
- CD-R 40x
- CD-RW 24X
- Read 48X
- Access time 160ms
- Buffer Size : 2MB
- Bulk Software Package Nero Suite III & Power DVD OEM Software




Price: £38.90 (£45.71 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Ark

Damn them - There's no software with it!