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Originally Posted by bigggt
Hi,I need opinions on 2 dvd roms.
1.Lite On dvd rom-49 bucks Canadian
2.Retail Plus -69 bucks
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I'd go for the Liteon. Not only will you save yourself $20, but you'll also have a good versatile drive (probably much better than the "Retail Plus", which sounds like a true no-name brand). Liteons are well-known for being able to rip faster than many other drives, in addition to supporting
most burnable media formats (aside from dvd-ram). I'd suggest going over to the forums at
www.cdrlabs.com and reading up a bit in their "DVD-ROM" Forum. Liteon drives are fairly popular
weapons of choice.
(this isn't an exact quote, but someone here once said something to me like, "Liteon products are like the George Foreman Grills of the computer world...they're all over the place"
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I've had a Liteon 165H drive for ~1.5 years and it's still chugging along just fine. The only complaints I can think of (which are actually pretty minor) are:
1) it is louder than some other dvd-roms during spinup/extraction (but if you really want to prolong the life of the drive, then you should probably mainly be using it just for ripping anyways and not for continuously watching 2-hour long dvds with it...it's better to rip your movie and watch the vob files from your hard-drive rather than having the drive spinning for 2 straight hours).
2) the build-quality of the drive is a little bit on the flimsy side (but then again,
most drives these days are built in a similar way, and unless you can personally test every drive or open them up, you won't know which ones are more "solid"). I can see that it uses plastic gears inside, which I'm sure would tend to wear down quicker than other materials if a person were constantly over-using it, putting it through a torture test. As long as you're not opening the drive's tray and using it as a cup-holder, it should last awhile.
All things considered though, there's not a lot to complain about.
-d&c