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From: ToddAndMargo on 20 Jul 2008 19:40
Hi All,

Do you burn a lot of DVD disks with a SATA DVD burner?
If so, what drive are you using? Have you noticed anything
unusual (kernel panics, etc.)? And would you recommend
your drive to others?

Many thanks,
-T
From: phil-news-nospam on 24 Jul 2008 03:01
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:40:29 GMT ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

| Do you burn a lot of DVD disks with a SATA DVD burner?
| If so, what drive are you using? Have you noticed anything
| unusual (kernel panics, etc.)? And would you recommend
| your drive to others?

I have an LG brand SATA drive in one machine and it works fine. I have an LG
brand external USB one that also works fine. I also have in yet another
machine and LG brand one for IDE which works a bit cranky due to a real IDE
issue (reading whole drive does not correctly give the recorded length) and
the fact the cdrecord author hates anything not SCSI look-alike, and so it
gets fussy about the IDE drivers.

No kernel panics with the SATA or USB drive. The machine with the IDE drive
has some issues that I think are unrelated to that drive (but one can never
tell for sure).

I would recommend the LG SATA or USB DVD recorders. I will buy LG again for
my next computer build. I have recorded data DVDs and data CDs without any
problem. I have not attempted video DVDs or music CDs (lack of anything worth
using a blank for).

For backup purposes, I'm using USB hard drives. For data transport purposes
I'm using USB flash keys or memory cards via a USB attached reader/writer.
IMHO, flash will defeat optical disk media in a few years. It will also
defeat all but the largest archival capacity of hard drive in a few more
years beyond that. A little SDHC card can be had with 32 GB at a high price.
But 4 GB was that price just a couple years ago and is now down to $20.

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