DVD Drives with W2K
People please advise which DVD drives have worked well with W2K - thanks
People please advise which DVD drives have worked well with W2K - thanks
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I've got a Pioneer 32x/6x and it works flawlessly.
[This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 23 February 2001).]
[This message has been edited by BladeRunner (edited 23 February 2001).]
You should be able to get any DVD drive and itll work fine. However, its better to get a name brand drive,like Pioneer, or whatever you can get, youll probably shell out around $150 for a good,name-brand drive with extras. I have a Toshiba 12x, bare bones drive for $115. I have an older 6x in my test system, they seem to hold up very well.
I also got Pioneer DVD-115 16X and it works great. I've tried that DVD drive in both Win2k Professional and Server editions and it works great.
Don't get a Sony either.
I 'acquired' a Sony DDU220E IDE DVD drive and it was fine for a while, and then it basically went tits up and died on me.
Everything slowed down and hlaf the time it didn't even recognise the disk.
I've since replaced it with a 52x CD drive .
When DVDs actually start becoming useful for PCs I might consider getting another one, but it'll prbably be a Pioneer drive, and it'll definately be SCSI.
I 'acquired' a Sony DDU220E IDE DVD drive and it was fine for a while, and then it basically went tits up and died on me.
Everything slowed down and hlaf the time it didn't even recognise the disk.
I've since replaced it with a 52x CD drive .
When DVDs actually start becoming useful for PCs I might consider getting another one, but it'll prbably be a Pioneer drive, and it'll definately be SCSI.
The Sony DDU 1211 is 12X and 40X, buit in China is OK. I previously had a Sony DDU 220E, 5X and 24X with 75 milliseconds access time, built in Japan, which still works fine after two years.
The indicated DVD speed is irrelevant. They all play the same. The CD speed matters. They are very good at reading CD-RW discs.
Check digital audio extraction and accurate stream capabilities: they make all the difference: CDSpeed at http://209.15.164.79/
The indicated DVD speed is irrelevant. They all play the same. The CD speed matters. They are very good at reading CD-RW discs.
Check digital audio extraction and accurate stream capabilities: they make all the difference: CDSpeed at http://209.15.164.79/
