If you were kindly asked to rank the top 5 CD Burners, (desregarding price) how would you rank them?

Thanks..:)

E.g.

YAMAHA
SAMSUNG
SONY
PLEXTOR
LITEON

Disregarding speed:

1. YAMAHA
2. PLEXTOR
3. TDK
4. LITEON
5. SAMSUNG

My .02 <_<

I really Like

Plextor
Mitsumi
Samsung
Yamaha!!

LiteOn
Yamaha
Plextor
Asus
Ricoh

Plextor
LiteOn
Sony

LG is a great one. Cheap and burns pretty much anything

Lite-On
ASUS
Plextor
TEAC
Sony

Half the cdrw's listed won't burn the copy protection out today, not even emulate them. If you have to use a cd crack on a copy then your copy isn't any good.

1.Plextor
2.Yamaha
3.Lite-On
4.TDK
5.Samsung

I love my new 48x Lite On.

Other than that I guess Sony.

So:

Lite On
Sony
Lite On
Sony
Lite On

:P

Plextor

Yamaha

Sony

TDK

TEAC

Plextor, Yamaha, Lite-On, Sony, Mitsumi

plextor, yamaha, liteon, sony, hp

I have just replaced my old HP 4 speed for a LG 24 speed GCE-8240B with 8 mb cache ram works fast good and cheap.

Hi

i have tried out different burners and this i my list.

Plextor
Yamaha
Sony
LG

but plextor is my first choice

Mad*}{*

My Choice .....

TDK - So far so good
Yamaha - Quality is assured
Plextor - Money for Quality
LiteOn - Good value for money
TEAC - No negatives from people

Plextor
Lite-ON
ASUS
Sony
Yamaha

Ya, not too many LG's. I too just purchased an LG. It is werkin great and was pretty cheap too. Had a Sony before that and it worked well too. ...griz ;)

I have an old HP CD-Writer plus 8100 series and I think I will change it today :D

I have waste 4 CDs this week :blink: When they are too big, my burner can't hold them :angry:


Ok,

I just buy a new LG 52x 24x 52x :D for only $79.99 cdn :P

Now it't time to install it

I have a usb2 sony one one my laptop, it works great!! I had a hi val one from comp usa, but i had to take it back and exchange it for the sony because more than 90% of the cds i burned were coasters, thankfully i figured this out after just a few cds.

My 2 cents worth

I've had Mitsubishi Diamond Data
Lite-on
MSI

Mitsubishi using Nero miles in front
only one coaster in 300 - and it was my fault
miko

If speed and price didn't count, depending on reliability:

1. Plextor
2. HP
3. Yamaha
4. Memorex
5. Sony(All of the Sony CD-RW's that i've used are super slow, crap, and really bad. <_< )

That surprises me.....especially since HP is so high in your list....a lot of HP burners are actually rebadged Sony drives.
Sony doesn't hardly make any new cd-r/rw drive themselves lately,they started rebadging too,using LiteOn and Ricoh oem drives...

@roadworker
The HP that I have is REALLY old, it's a 4x, but it still works great. The Sony that I used was a 48x, and it stunk. It was burning REALLY slow, even with 48x media.

billybob3,was DMA enabled ?
Most probs about slow burning speed are caused by highspeed cdr-w drives that are running in PIO mode,instead of DMA...a 4X burner is hardly affected by that setting,but a 48X depends on it to get it's full burning speed!:)

@roadworker

Ya, I don't know for sure, the Sony was at school...and if you change any settings there, the Computer Admin will try to butt rape :o you. He's crazy! :lamo:

LiteOn

Plextor

Yamaha

HP