Lite-On 24x = Good?

[Jeomite]

I'm feeling quite 'out-of-date' burning my CDRs @ 8x. =|
So I'm hoping to buy a cd burner that support 90mins (I don't care 99min) and has BURN-Proof (or similar) technology. I'm looking for a 24x or 20x burner. Any suggestions? I been checking out Sefy's recent list of compared cd burners, and the Lite-On 24x seems like a cheap burner. But is it reliable? Anyone know? Thanks for any input. =)

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[tinycorkscrew]

I don't have the Lite-On 24x, but I've read lots of reviews, and it looks like a very good burner for the price.

If I were going to buy a burner today, that's the one I'd go for.

If money were no object, I'd go for a Plextor.

[karter74]

I have a Lite-on 12x burner and I can tell you that these burners are just as good as a Plextor but for half the price. I would highly recommend buying it, if the price is right.

[König Knäckebrot]

Last Week i have buyed me the LiteON 24102B.And i say it´s a great Burner

[Jeomite]

I just ordered the Lite-On 24x...
$104 Retail Model (with all the goodies such as Nero, CDR Media). The other place had it for $96 OEM, but the shipping was more expensive there.

The final was around $115. Which I think is a great bargain for a 24x CD Burner. =)

Perhaps I'll post my experiences in the near future.
Thanks for the input guys. =)

[Raider]

I bought my liteon last week and its excellent.The only drawback, (if you class it as a drawback)is that it will not record less than 8x, this is stated on the cdrinfo site.
Apart from that its burning everything ok.
Exceelent piece of kit, and at a good price.

[Jeomite]

Yeah, I've read about that - it cannot burn slower than 8x. Why is that? Isn't that kinda weird?

[LeveL_42]

Don't have the 24 speed but the 12 speed Lite-On burner and it's working perfectly ! Higly recommended.

[Vejita-sama]

Can it burn 90min/99min CDRs? If so I'm ordering one today

[Sefy]

According to all the information I gathered from loads of places, all the series of Lite-On burners support 90 and 9 min CDR burning, I cannot verify this for myself as I don't own one, although i'm really tempted at buying the 24x drive since you can buy it for as little as 95$

[schwinn]

Apple is using Lite-on in their New Power PC machines! So they have to be good right

[Raider]

I've used my Tosh 6702b to read at max and Liteon to write at 24x on 24x media and had no probs(psx though).

This may help the buyers amongst you



http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/liteon24102/index.shtml

[PCGuy760]

Liteon Rocks! It is cheap but dont expect to get a cheap product with poor performance. I compared it to my friend's TDK VeloCD 24x and my 16x burner burned a CD as fast as his!!! The time difference was just a few seconds.The Drive is outstanding and Plextor is just a name with a high price tag.

This gotta be the deal of the century. Liteon is certainly thinkin about us average folks!

GO BUY A LITEON TODAY!

[Jeomite]

Thanks for the extra info, I feel more confident in my purchase decision. =)

I wanted to get a Plextor (eh, money... ) because of it's PoweRec II technology, but Lite-On has a technology called SMART-Burn which is equilvant. To summarize short, the technology ensures not only a fast, but QUALITY burn.
QUALITY > SPEED !!!

[K808]

Performance wise Lite-On is a good brand, but iv heard from people that they arent as durable as other brands. If youre looking for a cheap, fast burner go with lite-on, personally im a fan of Plextors, i have a 24x, and 16x plextor, and a 6x Ricoh. The Plextors work great, but the Ricoh sometimes gives trouble with certain cdr media.

[Vejita-sama]

I was going to get the Plextor 24x in at the end of next week. I've got the Plextor 8x (SCSI) and it's ROCK solid. Before that I had a Phillips 2x (paid $350 back in the day) and I went through in in ~1yr.

The Lite-on looks really nice thou. The Plextor's don't burn 90min/99min CDRs either (which would be really nice). And the Plextor cost 2x. So I guess I'm going with the Lite-on Thanks for the advise/input...

[Sefy]

Just wanted to say I just had a Lite-On 24x (unfortunatly just for testing, it belongs to a friend of mine) and the drive CAN burn 90min and 99min CDR media! I even burned the 99min at 24x speed, although i've been told that is not recommanded, oh well, I never did what other people recommanded when it came to hardware

[Jeomite]

Sefy,
I just wanted to point a simple typo in your CD-Writers Comparison page. The Lite-On 24x LTR-24102B has it's BURN-Proof technology type listed as "SMART-X", it's supposed to be "SMART-Burn" (Smart Monitoring & Adapting Recording Technology for Burning) =)

SMART-X is another technology this cd-writer has which is Smart Monitoring & Adjusting Read-speed Technology -for- eXtraction... it's used to change the read speed for Audio Discs, VCDs, and such. =)

Keep up the superb work on the site and such. It really helped out me out a ton (and even led me to buying this new Lite-On CDRW =).

[Sefy]

Jeomite, thanks for the correction, i'll fix it immediatly! I must have mixed them when I read on their home page, since Smart-X propably came before Smart-Burn.

And I'm glad you found it helpful!

[Feslmogh]

In my honest opinon, Lite-On is a very reliable burner! It comes with Nero(yippie!). Over here in the States it sold as a BusLink product. The burn-proof works great and had any big proplems with it!