What is the DVD writer of choice?

[wadgey]

Wasted a load of discs trying to burn some backups on an LG drive, albeit on crap Aone media. So shot myself with crap hardware/consumables before even starting.

What is the writer of choice? I've read that Verbs are the best media although most should work with any good writer.

[evilsatan]

Pioneer 112 for a IDE setup or Pioneer 212 for a SATA, I prefer the 212 but if you have a IDE setup best go for the 112 unless you want a PCI SATA controller.

[Nibb]

Yep I agree...Pioneer 112 has never let me down.

[wadgey]

thanks. what's the difference between the 112 and 112D?

Anybody got one to sell?

[Nibb]

They are cheap enough new m8....around £20.

112 are DVD-RAM read & write
112D DVD-RAM read only.

Info Here

http://www.shopneo.co.uk/pioneer-dvr...-pr-16763.html

[wadgey]

thanks. saw that on Neo. I'll pop into town and get something tommorow. Can't wait for the post.

[Nibb]

NP!

[chrismaher2007]

ive a crappy nec burner that came with the pc. i only use Aone discs. not once ever have i seen an error message with them.

[lithho]

i have both a nec and poineer drives, the nec has givin me bad burns but the poineer has never failed me, get one mate, cheap and very good

[vgopal]

thanks. what's the difference between the 112 and 112D?

Anybody got one to sell?

theres actually not much difference and you can cross flash firmware.

[Mickey]

Pioneer 112 for a IDE setup or Pioneer 212 for a SATA, I prefer the 212 but if you have a IDE setup best go for the 112 unless you want a PCI SATA controller.

I just bought the ide version, and is really good,fast and reliable

[Nibb]

theres actually not much difference and you can cross flash firmware.

http://digital-forums.com/showpost.p...81&postcount=5

[dalboy]

Im using a 20 quid NEC ND-355. Only burnt about a dozen games and all on RiDiscs and never had one problem...

[biggy7]

Pioneer 111 here works awesome!

[chrismaher2007]

i have both a nec and poineer drives, the nec has givin me bad burns but the poineer has never failed me, get one mate, cheap and very good

bad dvd burns the odd time, but for the 360 never had a spot of bother. thats on the hitachi dvd drive now.

[trueblue924]

i had an nec drive that failed on every disc i tried then got a pioneer 111d with 1.29 firmware and it burns everything fine i payed twenty quid delivered about a year ago on ebay deffo worth the money

[sanj]

Another vote for the pioneer 112 here and have just got some Pioneer 212 sata drive's and there ace too!No prob's what so ever.

[funkyg]

Using a Pioneer 111 and Aone disks. No problems as of yet, I've probably done 20-30 backups and all work fine.

[EvilBoB]

From how I understand it, the only way you can burn 360 titles you need to use a Pioneer. I personally don't know anyone that has managed to burn a 360 title on anything other than a 112

[inspectercoley]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125285

Yeah I might order that one if I can be arsed to get a new one. On my current DVD writer a lot of the dvds are only readable on that drive. Not sure if thats a problem cos of the disks or the writer.