magicspin dvd burner

[RJARRRPCGP]

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lite-on junk.

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree about Lite-On.

At least the SOHR-5239V CD-RW drive I have. It loves to randomly stop in middle of reading a CD, at least when less than around 70 F in the room.

[ratdude747]

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i have hand nothing but good luck with my liteon drives... every one i have owned worked... so i disagree, lite-on not junk.

dranted, the newest one was an '08 build...

[toastygoodness]

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yeah, i disagree too. i have lite-on everything, multiple devices, all my clients have lite-on drives. not a single failure. maybe i'm just lucky. i count around 90 lite-on drives that i have.

sony, phillips, lg, etc have all had problems with me tho for some reason.

[ratdude747]

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yeah, i disagree too. i have lite-on everything, multiple devices, all my clients have lite-on drives. not a single failure. maybe i'm just lucky. i count around 90 lite-on drives that i have.

sony, phillips, lg, etc have all had problems with me tho for some reason.

i have good luck with sony as well... problems with lg and phillips (they suck at everything it seems these days) for me...

[PCBONEZ]

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I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree about Lite-On.

At least the SOHR-5239V CD-RW drive I have. It loves to randomly stop in middle of reading a CD, at least when less than around 70 F in the room.

Lube the slides [or rail] on the laser platform.
Usually the grease has all pushed to the ends and all you have to do is re-spread it. [Use a toothpick.]
If not then use a TINY bit of silicon grease.

[PCBONEZ]

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Haven't had trouble with LG.
Quit using Lite-on back when they were called Gold Star.
HL-DT-ST types usually work good after a firmware update.
Only had one Phillips and it was crap from day one.
My [real] Plextor from back in the 90's is still going strong.
.

[ratdude747]

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i had an lg drive out of a gateway overheat...it would never read cd's anyway... POS!

[Scenic]

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Haven't had trouble with LG.
Quit using Lite-on back when they were called Gold Star.
HL-DT-ST types usually work good after a firmware update.
Only had one Phillips and it was crap from day one.
My [real] Plextor from back in the 90's is still going strong.
.

*?!*

LG = HL-DT-ST = Goldstar

HL-DT-ST = Hitachi-LG Data Storage = what most ppl. call "LG" nowadays..
Goldstar -> Lucky Goldstar -> LG

lite-on (more like lite-off when the lasers die after half a year) has nothing to do with any of these..
from what i know, lite-on is somehow related to JVC.

[PCBONEZ]

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*?!*

LG = HL-DT-ST = Goldstar

HL-DT-ST = Hitachi-LG Data Storage = what most ppl. call "LG" nowadays..
Goldstar -> Lucky Goldstar -> LG

I think your right.
I bought an 8x Gold Star back in the 90's and it wouldn't do Linux [which is what I specifically bought it for and it said Linux compatible on the box] and I swore I'd never get another Gold Star again.
I guess 10+ years later I forgot who was who.

[kaniki]

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half a year.. naa.. more like 1 year 1 day.. just out of warranty. I have had that happen 2 times with lite-on drives.. one was a DVD ROM for the PC, the other was a DVD Burner for the TV. Both crapped out just after a year and just out of warranty..

[stj]

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10 years ago i was doing SGI stuff,

optical drives on unix was always a problem then, the drive had to have a specific block-size.
good drives like pioneer & yamaha had a jumper to set the blocksize for unix comptability.
the junk didnt.

the best drive i ever had - still have is my pioneer scsi slot-loader.
those are built like tanks with a mechanism that is pure quality.

i used to carry it around for doing software installs because it was soo much better than other peoples drives!

[toastygoodness]

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lite-on isn't related to anything. out of all the optical drives, it is the only one from taiwan. jvc, sony, plextor are japanese. lg is korean, so is samsung. pioneer is japanese too. phillips might as well be korean, they share with lg.

[PCBONEZ]

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Plextor doesn't -make- optical drives anymore.
Their drives are OEM from someone else now with a customized firmware.
.

[Scenic]

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Usually Lite-On OEM.

[goodpsusearch]

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Plextor doesn't -make- optical drives anymore.
Their drives are OEM from someone else now with a customized firmware.
.

[PCBONEZ]

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Usually Lite-On OEM.

Yes,,, at least they used to be.
Couple years ago I tracked down who made 3 or 4 of the Plextors that were current then and all but one were Lite-on.
I haven't considered Plextor since then as just buying a Lite-on branded unit would get the same part for something like 20% less $$.

[stj]

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not good these days,
Plextor - gone
Yamaha - gone.
Pioneer - quality not always what it was, it varies from drive to drive. the 111 is a good one.
NEC - now optiarc, did sony help or damage the NEC quality? i think we dont have that answer yet.

[goodpsusearch]

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what about lg?

[stj]

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i was only listing the good stuff!!!

[kaniki]

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didnt sony stop making ROM's and lease out the production of them to another company a couple years ago?