Another Dead DRU-500A !!

[SonyUser]

OK, this is not mine before anyone asks.

I just had a message (PM) sent to me about it.

Below are the details......

pedroarez....
i have a sony dru500A for a month, just burnt 2 dvd-r and some DVD-rw and yesterday puff it died while i was erasing a DVD-rw and the drive just won work... no signal i reboot the computer and the bios didnt find the drive.... the led was off... it died
i am going to send the drive to the store on monday....
what could be the problem ?
my PSU is an enermac 430w i dont think that could be a problem of the Psu
i havent upgraded the firmware...

any ideias ?!
could you post this for me ... i cant post cause im a new user

[Seraphic]

If the new NEC DVD-+/RW can be reliable SONY will take a beating. This is one of many Dead Sony DRu I read about.

I fell sorry for the poor guy.

I have been waiting months to grab a Pioneer 105 for $150 at Staples and if it had died on me in 2 days I would be depressed too.

[musher70]

ANOTHER TRUE "SONY" story...like all their products...

Ideas are great, cool faceplates on products, work
great for a while then poof...they break...

[WeedVender]

Gasp........

[defense]

Musher said:

ANOTHER TRUE "SONY" story...like all their products...

Ideas are great, cool faceplates on products, work
great for a while then poof...they break...

Like all of their products? Where do you get that whacky information from? Sony makes the BEST electronics products overall. I always buy Sony and will continue to always buy Sony, (especially now that i'm gettin' my $50 rebate.) I notice that all of these people that have their Sony burner that died have had very few, if any posts. I wonder if I should create a new nic titled "pioneer phukin phreak" and say that my A05/105 burner is DEAD after one burn. I get amused at all the shit people talk when they have no clue what they are talking about. I have SONY Dolby Pro Logic equipment that I purchased back in 1991 and it still LOOKS and plays like it was BRAND NEW! I also have a Sony 5 disk CD changer/carousel from 1991 which is BETTER then any damn CD player i've ever seen or used. Even the ones that come out today have nothing on this changer. Why do I say that? Only because I bought it IN 1991 and have NEVER had a single problem playing ANY music disk in it. What is even BAFFLING to me is how this damn thing plays EVERY type of .MP3 /.WAV disk I have EVER PUT INTO IT. Every type of media, every type of format. I think I need to post a question on how that is possible, because .MP3's weren't prevalent until years later. What is even more odd, is that the Sony DVD Player I bought about two years ago, played NONE of my .MP3 DISKS, THAT IS THE ONLY reason I sold it on Ebay to somebody that gave me a "great" price. Then I took that money and bought the best Multi-Format standalone player on the market. The Philips 724 AT31. The only reason that DVD Player didn't play all formats, was because Sony has been trying to be a huge advocate on Piracy, etc. But they realize that wasn't a smart stand to take, especially after seeing how other companies are going the other direction for sales. I expect Sony to come out with an incredible multi-format standalone DVD Player sometime this year. Another Sony Product I have, which I purchased back in 1992, is a VCR+ with the glow in the dark shuttle remote. I still have NEVER seen a VCR OR a REmote as incredible as these. That is when VCR+ first came out big and my VCR is still PLAYING as smoothly as the day I first bought it. Makes me smile just writing this. Although, over the last year, I have used it once. Anyway, back to what I was saying. I guess I am wrong, having Sony products that look and play the same way after A WHOPPING twelve years, doesn't mean much. Not to mention all of the Sony Dolby Digital equipment I have now which is unbelievable. Also, not to mention this DRU500a which I have gotten approximately 100 burns in and it is still burning like I haven't burned a thing...JUST LIKE IT SHOULD. Musher and the rest of you jokers....don't post garbage without some facts. Someone has one thing break on them and all of a sudden ALL products by that manufacturer are garbage. I really don't know why I wasted my time writing this post. I should just sit back and laugh, and then throw a CD or ANY MP3 disk in my 12 year old equipment and chill.

Sony's DA' BEST!

[defense]

Interestingly, I guess I don't have to create that new nicname after all. I just scrolled down this very page, and saw a post titled "DEAD PIONEER A04." Other people responded to that VERY post WITH the SAME problems. DEAD 104'S dead A05's, DEAD A03's. Yep, that's that CRAP company Pioneer for ya. I'm sure they have a 100 year warranty on those blank DVD-R's. With CRAP products like their shitty A series burners, which should be F series burners, people won't have to worry about contacting Pioneer for that 100 year warranty, because they will be BELLY UP by then!


SONY #1

[bl2003]

I'm going to agree with 'defense' on this one, at least with regards to Sony producing excellent quality products. Every manufacturer at one time or another produces a buggy piece of equipment, and inasmuch as everything is massed produced for the greater good of saving money, there are going to be some failed units. I myself am waiting on a backordered 500A, which the supplier is now replacing with the 500AX (or is it just X?). At any rate, yeah, I'll be pissed if the new drive fails on me, but I'd be very surprised.

Not to insult anyone, but another factor that comes into play is certainly that particular persons experience and competence in installing components and working on the PC in general. Maybe everyone on the board and everyone that purchased a DRU-500A is an A+ certified tech, but it's not likely. Hell, I myself have used computers for a good 15 years and built them for 5 years, and even I've managed to have a few glitches directly related to my having not secured a connector, using a bad cable, any number of things. Just something to think about.

[Seraphic]

The Sony from the early nineties and the sony of Today might be two totally diiferent breeds. I don't remember seeing Sony VCR and TV's in low rent Stores like Target or Walmart in 1991 but I see them today.

Sony is good brand but you have to be decerning when buying cause to stay competitive allot of Sony low end products are made in low rent countries. I say the best Sony is the Sony MADE IN JAPAN. That means HIGH End Stuff Today in Sony's Industrial radio & Broadcast equipment all made in Japan. The taiwain and China Sony stuff do not compare in Quality or durability to the Sony of the Good old days in the 70 80's and early 90's when they didn't outsource there production so much to rice field nations and put together by cabbage farmers payed 50 cents a day.

[bl2003]

Sony is good brand but you have to be decerning when buying cause to stay competitive allot of Sony low end products are made in low rent countries. I say the best Sony is the Sony MADE IN JAPAN. That means HIGH End Stuff Today in Sony's Industrial radio & Broadcast equipment all made in Japan. The taiwain and China Sony stuff do not compare in Quality or durability to the Sony of the Good old days in the 70 80's and early 90's when they didn't outsource there production so much to rice field nations and put together by cabbage farmers payed 50 cents a day.

Absolutely. I myself work in an industry that is primarily (70/30) used to Japanese manf. products. The products now coming out of China/Taiwan, even those with the same Japanese manf. sticker on them are of an exceedingly lower quality. Not to mention quality control, which seems to be non-existant.

[bacardi/avt]

Just wondering where the Pioneer factory i located?

And couldn't all these post be related to the huge sale of Sony drives over the last months?

[Erwin]

"And couldn't all these post be related to the huge sale of Sony drives over the last months?"

Next to HP's DVD+R, it's probably the best selling DVD+/-R drive right now. They are always sold out in a matter of days and hours according to the stores that I have visited such as Circuit City and Office Depot. SONY is not flawless by any means, but I don't think Pioneer is either. I really can't stand some of their (Pioneer) products. However, I do love the recent Pioneer standalone DVD player that I recently bought a Wal-Mart for a measly $75.

[Greg12]

I have a DRU500A, it's great.

[mrspangle]

Hi,

Dont lame Sony just cause someone had a misfortunate product. It happens to the best of them.

In my opinion, Sony make the most reliable products around. If possible i try to buy Sony all the time. Just look at the build quality of their products, its impecable. Compared with other manufacturers (not naming any) Sony win hands down for build. Another thing i like about Sony is the create style of the products - not just in one area - but spread across their whole product line - Digital Cameras, Video Cameras, TV's, Computer Peripherials the list goes on.

Personally ive no problems what so ever with my numerous Sony buy's

So think again please

John

[magomago]

Just because you got screwed doesn't mean its the company - you just got a lemon. And lemons are usually shipped in batches so all the mistakes/errors occur within a similar timespan.

It is like saying Asus Motherboards suck because they sent out a defunt batch that had underpowered batteries for some odd reason. Not it isn't

Furthermore, you ALWAYS hear of the bad more than the good because why do the people whose product is working NEED TO POST "My CDRW is still chugging baby!"

They don't


As for excellence I will admit I tend to lean Sony (though recently on non-computer items I've been anything but. My first TV for myself, an APEX cuts my SVCd-tricked VCDs so much I have to resize them in Vdub to 420*430 and then add borders extended to 480*480 Just so I could read them. I also have some horrible Mintek2110 that won't read native SVCDs but plays them FINE with the header trick) but that is because I haven't been SEVERLY burned.

My dad still has some old Universal Radio from Sony that he uses to listen to broadcasts halfway across the world...this baby is from the 80s and chugging. I like how my Sony Cd player always has that skip protection turned on regardless and I usually outlast my friends who turn on their "45 second protection" when it comes to battery consumption.

I have a Playstation 2 because until the first PSX broke (Sony prodcuts can't handle being tossed two stories onto porcelin tiles) I was quite content.


Every company has lemons, live with it.

And Unless they get to the point where you RMA a cdrom over 6 times ( *ough* I/O Magic) I highly doubt it means they suck as a company

[Kennyshin]

From the first people who bought Sony DRU-500A to today, I have read posts on hundreds of forums over the world, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, US, Europe, and many other smaller markets.

Of course, no manufacturer is perfect. Even Asus is not. Microsoft is not. IBM is not. Toyota is not.

As for producing things in China and in Taiwan instead in Japan, that's the same thing companies making shoes, clothes, motherboards, memory chips, LCD panels, TV sets, PDAs, digital camera, CD-R discs, DVD writers, DVD players, and thousands of IT and non-IT products. Not only Sony but Ricoh, Pioneer, LG, Samsung, Lite-On, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and most other Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, and even European makers like Philips have moved into China. I also prefer "Made in Japan" but only when it's about the same price and offers noticeably higher quality which usually isn't.