Lite On LDW-811S ? any good? general lit on recorder opions?

[overloaded_ide]

I looked in the burner section and did a search, nothing for the Lite On LDW-811S 8x burner shows up yet. No comments, and best price was still showing $250, though newegg has them at $149 oem now.

So in looking for a new burner, I am wondering if this one is decent? Anyone have one. Anyone have first hand experience with the lite on burners in general? I might expect this one to follow the normal flow of previous Lite on burners, either great or junk, I would expect this model to about the same quality either way.
I do love my other Lite on Drives and CD Burners, just never tried the DVD burners yet.

My Toshiba Sd-r5002 is still doing great, Ritek G03 at 2x with the built in burner in Tmpgenc DVD Author (though yesterday I burned a mpeg2 data disk with NERO and it came out 1x speed )
I was in a hurry also and needed to take a raw mpeg2 file to the office, Why Nero burned it 1x I don't know, Nero said 2x, but the time was 1x!

Anyway, I need another burner for a different system and the Lite On LDW-811S is one of several I am thinking about. Supposedly Write Speed: 8X DVD+R,4X DVD+RW,4X DVD-R,2X DVD-RW.

It's just $20 more than the LiteOn LDW-411S. Though I don't expect to use the 8x +r feature very often and thats the only real difference I see between the 2, still I suppose I might as well have it for future use. Sometimes (like yesterday) it might come in handy.

[pharlap]

just keep using your old one as lite-on has several problems with dual format units

[Spackros]

Hi overloaded
I have had the liteon 811s now for three weeks, have burnt three disks
at eight times with no worries, 8 mins 40 secs for full disks on three different media types +r's and quiet a few -r at 4 times in 14 mins.

There were all different brand disks, which were verbatim, tdk and Imation, I have had no glitches with this drive and would recomend it.....

[overloaded_ide]

Thanks.

Unfortunatly it's not really as easy as keep my old one, I need more of them. I'm happy with the toshiba sd-r5200 at 2x, but it would be nice to be able to write 4x -r too. Right now I don't do +R but might as well have the option just in case since it doesn't cost much extra now. Dual format drives were 2x the price when i bought my current drive, so then I felt why bother, just get one each but never needed the plus format so never got it.

Now I have computers in various locations like home and the office and would like a burner each place. Plus I may be needing to do multiple copies (original content of course) at the same time, so I may need to get several matching drives in the near future
If building a small duplicater basically I want all the drives to be the same brand/models for less headaches and matched performance.