JustinH
2nd September 2004, 03:32
I think that my sony drive may be dying on me, but i'm not totally sure.
Its a sony oem drive, that I flashed with the hacked sony 510-a firmware, and it has the latest firmware on it.
For years I have been burning these 25 cent 4x sonic dvd-r's with zero problems at all. I get them from meritline.
With my last purchase of 200 discs from meritline, I noticed that the media looks a little different, and they put a white coating on the top of the disc instead of just the shiny surface. This made me think that they changed the media
Anyway I have been burning them at almost a 50 percent failure rate, which is terrible.
Anyway, I'm building a new computer anyway and I'm going to donate the old 4x burner to my file server in the basement for backups (if it still works).
I'm looking into a new drive. Whats the best drive out there now thats semi reasonable. I'm looking for a drive that is not picky with media, and very fast.
How about that 84 dollar 16x NEC drive?
Thanks,
Justin
Its a sony oem drive, that I flashed with the hacked sony 510-a firmware, and it has the latest firmware on it.
For years I have been burning these 25 cent 4x sonic dvd-r's with zero problems at all. I get them from meritline.
With my last purchase of 200 discs from meritline, I noticed that the media looks a little different, and they put a white coating on the top of the disc instead of just the shiny surface. This made me think that they changed the media
Anyway I have been burning them at almost a 50 percent failure rate, which is terrible.
Anyway, I'm building a new computer anyway and I'm going to donate the old 4x burner to my file server in the basement for backups (if it still works).
I'm looking into a new drive. Whats the best drive out there now thats semi reasonable. I'm looking for a drive that is not picky with media, and very fast.
How about that 84 dollar 16x NEC drive?
Thanks,
Justin