Use Your DVD-R Drive To Replace Your CDRW?

[TCrowe]

I think the subject says it all. I am replacing a CDRW drive with a DVD-R drive (Cendyne CDICD00208). I will continue to do a lot of CDR/CDRW burning, I stress lot. The thing that concerns me is wear and tear. It is one thing to blow up a 70 CDRW drive but a whole nother with a $250+ drive. Putting the speed aside does anyone recommend I not do this and why?

Is anyone out there using there DVD-R as a CDRW drive?

Thanks....

[pnl]

I would not worry too much about wearing out the drive. After all, if your not going to use it, why buy it in the first place right? By the time the drive fails, faster models will be out on the market and at a cheaper price too. I remember when I bought my first cd-rw drive, it was $200. Now you can get them for under $50 and at 40X burn, 12X rewrite.

[TCrowe]

Well yeah but my LiteOn 52x24x52 blew up after only 4-5 months. In that time I must have done 1000's of burns on CDR and CDRW. Now we could argue that I might have had a defective LiteOn to begin with but I just don't want to be in the same boat with a DVD-R drive. You are right however, if your going to buy "USE IT"!!!!

Thanks for the reply.

[sarahjh69]

dvd writers are pretty much only good for writing dvds
they are 2nd rate dvd rippers, and poor cd readers.
(they are good at reading dvdrs slowly)
they also wear out very quickly.
Get yerself a liteon 165/166 for reading/ripping then you can
copy on the fly at 4x....they are only $40.
Get yerself a liteon 48x writer for cdrs....$60
Your expensive dvd writer will last forever that way.
Use the right tool for the right job!