sony dru500a

**moeups** · 18th October 2002

Does anyone know if this drives works well for burning DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW for xbox?

**kringe** · 18th October 2002

Originally posted by moeups
Does anyone know if this drives works well for burning DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW for xbox?

I have on pre-paid from DELL... eta 10/14 so I will let you know then.... it was $268 with shipping - they had a %off special a week or so ago on every online accessory.

**WyldWayne** · 18th October 2002

om still waitin on mine to arrive from Dell also.
Got it for $278.
Dont know when it will ship though.
Hopefully soon.

Will let you know though.

**Kenny_911** · 18th October 2002

From reading another message board, I hear it's going to be around christmas. No surprise. Dell always pulls this crap.

**Jinx** · 18th October 2002

Originally posted by kringe

I have on pre-paid from DELL... eta 10/14 so I will let you know then.... it was $268 with shipping - they had a %off special a week or so ago on every online accessory.

well its 10/17 now so where's yours at?

I bought one too came to 271.. not bad considering they are selling it for 349 now and the best you can do is like 295 ish or something.. mine says its expected to ship on or before 10/24 hasn't changes since i ordered it on the 9th.. i've read somepeople who ordered there's on the 16 it says december for when it will ship.. Its not neccessarily dells fault.. the whole ship yards strike thing set them back 2 or 3 weeks.. these drives have probably (and might still be) sitting on a boat in the shipyard just waiting to be unloaded with the backlog..

**WyldWayne** · 18th October 2002

yeah lets hope so. Man I had no idea there was a strike goin on. I think my ship date was pushed bak to the 18th but havent heard anything sine then. Placed my order on the 3rd of Oct. Hopefully Ill get a good ole tracking number today.
Will keep you updated.

**Revolver_O** · 18th October 2002

circuit city already got the units, maybe you can try and price match it from a website or dell.

**kringe** · 19th October 2002

Originally posted by Jinx
well its 10/17 now so where's yours at?

Oops I meant my ETA is 10/24 also...

**Jinx** · 19th October 2002

I'd be highly surprised if they price match this unit losing nearly 100 dollars (alot of people got it for 250 shipped) I cant imagine they'd go that low.. part of DEL's deal was since you were pre-ordering it you got it at 314.99 (now they sell it for 349.99) plus you got the 15% off.. that was part of the whole deal.. Personally i'll just sit it out and wait

does anyone know if there have been any reviews or comments about if this drive has problems burning anything? (ie xbox backups, or movies, or general compability in general).. I'm hoping it will work great but with sony being one of the top people against piracy many they toned down the quality of the drive..

**jb10** · 19th October 2002

Just got my DRU-500A today. So far, I have burned xbox isos to a DVD+RW (the Sony brand that came with the drive), an Imation DVD-R, and also to various CD-RWs (I've found that the 10X high speed CD-RWs work the best).

So far, so good....

**Jinx** · 20th October 2002

oh SWEET? so you got your DVD+RW working perfectly in the xbox burned by the 500a ? Have you tried any DVD-r or DVD+R ... It runs good speed not slow or anything else??

did you buy you drive locally or did you get it from dell? Any complaints or problems as of yet? I heard that the drive might not be compatable with current programs right now...

**jb10** · 20th October 2002

Jinx,

I have burned DVD+RW, DVD-E, and CD-RW. (I haven't tried any other formats yet, but I expect that they all would burn fine.)

I bought the drive locally.

The speed is awesome. No complaints so far. RecordNow Max doesn't work with this drive yet, but the update to support this drive is supposed to be out next week. I have burned isos with RecordNow (comes bundled with the drive)using Daemon tools & Nero.

**Jinx** · 20th October 2002

Very cool, I've noticed it only has one light on the front, what colors does it change to when burning or reading different media's?

**jb10** · 20th October 2002

It's solid orange when reading / flashes orange when burning. I think that's it, but I really haven't been watching it all that much.

**WyldWayne** · 21st October 2002

ool jb10 man I hope Dell ships these things out soon man.

**Jinx** · 22nd October 2002

Originally posted by jb10
It's solid orange when reading / flashes orange when burning. I think that's it, but I really haven't been watching it all that much.

leave it to sony to be cheap! at least my current cdrw has a green and orange light.. i think the pioneer had red and blue and maybe even green too? weak!

anyone know if this drive burns ps2 backups okay? I heard something about this drive (being sony) might have some copy protection crap built in becusae they've done it in the past with their CDRW drives ?