The BEST PC DVD Drives

[fandos]

Sorry for me if i entered a wrong forum,

I am looking for a DVD drive for my PC P4, which dvd drive you think the best today ? I saw some toshiba ,Pioneer,Afrey,Samsung,... all are 16X OEM

I am new to this,so can you tell me how to connect them to my PC, and what cable,software i should use .

Thanks in advance . Fan

[fandos]

Anybody ? this one is not very hard ,ok ?

[Teleri]

Well I saw in previous msgs it was a todd up between toshiba and pioner. I ordered a pioner 106s yesterday off of a company from pricewatch $71 shiped 2 day air fed ex so by tommorow or thurs Icould tell you if the 106s is a good drive or not

[Sefy]

As a proud owener of the Pioneer 106S drive, I can tell you it's one great drive which delivers what you paid for, especialy when it doesn't cost that much anymore!

[fandos]

Thank you very much for the input,you guy just great

[Teleri]

Well on a slightly off topic question about hte 106s drive is there any dof between the 116? I wanted the slot loading option insteadof the tray ( been useing tray mounted cd roms for to long ) and is there a place I can get a black front peice for it?

[Sefy]

I've had the Slot drives for a long time now (104/105 and now the 106) mostly because i'm tired of Tray drives and waiting for them to eject or load the disc ;o)
but there is one small diffrence between the Slot and Tray drives, and that is you get the SPDIF output for Digital Audio from your DVD to your Sound Card.

[fandos]

Hello, cheer with me
today or tomorrow i'll get the P4 from DELL(configure to order),i heard people say P4 will do a lot faster conversion than my currently P3,i gave it a try

I'll test it and let you guy know the result .

[statuspending]

you got too much money to burn!


so...are you sending me your p3?

[LighthouseJ]

If you have a SCSI setup, I highly recommend the Pioneer 305S 10x24x0x0. I have one, it works very well and along with a fast hard drive array, it rips extremely fast.

Note: AxBxCxDx, A=DVD Read, B=CD Read, C=CD Write, D=CD Erase

[fandos]

To statuspending : check your email,my P3 is in it.(hihihi)

well,that P4 did not cost me much for 1.7GHZ,128MbPC800,

40gATA/100 7200R/M,gforce2MX,no monitor 1,219 USD

I'm gonna use it with my Sony TRV730 and some DVD

conversions. I am ordering a pair of 128MbPC800/ecc

for $184 from Pricewatch.com,is it a good deal?

[Sefy]

Forgive me for budging in on you, but aren't you supposed to use RDRAM with a P4 Mainboard ? did the new P4 boards with SDRAM support came out already ?