Desktop Dvd Drive

[MikeWill]

Desktop DVD Drive Recommendations

I want to replace my old internal DVD drive.

Does anyone have any recommendations or advice on what to get and what to avoid?

My OS is Win7.

[TigertheCat]

I have had good results with WD drives and bad experiences with Maxtor and Seagate so my recommendation is the WD 6400 AAKS @baht 2100 or thereabouts,I am running this drive on my Win 7 desktop.

640Gb

SATA II

7200 rpm

Also good reviews on the various tech sites.

Get it from here www.jedicool.com for good service and backup

[MikeWill]

I have had good results with WD drives and bad experiences with Maxtor and Seagate so my recommendation is the WD 6400 AAKS @baht 2100 or thereabouts,I am running this drive on my Win 7 desktop.

640Gb

SATA II

7200 rpm

Also good reviews on the various tech sites.

Get it from here www.jedicool.com for good service and backup

Is it hard disk or DVD writer?

[TigertheCat]

Sorry,misread your post.

I have an Asus and Lite-On drive at present (DVD Writers) and both are ok,can read all dvd's.

Also had a Samsung,also very good.

If you have a SATA port on the mother board then go for a SATA drive then no need to configure Master/Slave.

[Beggar]

I had/have Lite-On DVD-RW. My IDE version I had to RMA 5 times until I got a working one - they gave me a different model then. My SATA version IHAS424 I had to RMA only 4 times -2 did not work at all

In any case check a test burn with CDSpeed (Nero) if you have. There you can see the burn quality.